A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. Odin will separate shortly after the Falcon 9 upper stage fires its engines to head for the moon. The ...

Asteroid mining seems simple in theory. A spacecraft flies up to a giant rock in space, scoops out some material, and either ...

A small asteroid named 2022 OB5 has revealed an unexpected obstacle for asteroid miners: it rotates once every 1.542 minutes, ...

America is on the brink of a thrilling new era: space mining! With NASA, SpaceX, and various private companies leading the ...

7-28-14 Update: There they were, at 10,000 feet on the remote and rugged slopes of the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, running their robot through the same volcanic soil NASA uses to ...

A mineral resources map of a section of the Moon produced by the US Geological Survey with data from NASA and JAXA missions The global race for mining and critical minerals is on. Through their Belt ...

A Natural Resources subcommittee will focus on securing minerals in space and competition with China and Russia. House Republicans looking to expand mining want to turn Congress’ attention to ...

Does the United Nations need to form a Parliament to regulate space mining? The answer will likely be yes if we ask from within the U.N. itself. Posing this question outside that forum, however, one ...

The EU's Commissioner for Space and Defense, warns of the bloc losing influence in space as it expresses ambition to mine the moon and asteroids for resources. Faltering energy security and unstable ...

5-23-16 update: Cyclone Space Mining was so close to big mining runs at NASA’s annual robotics competition. But, a broken frame disabled one of the team’s two robots during the team’s first run. Then, ...

After Artemis II took astronauts to lunar orbit for the first time since 1972, Nasa has released detailed plans for how it intends to establish a Moon base within the next decade. It is ambitious, to ...

Since ownership of celestial bodies is prohibited under Article 2 of the Outer Space Treaty (OST) of 1967, how can a U.S. lunar mining company claim exclusive access to a resource-rich crater near the ...