Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just suffered a major setback.

There are plenty of upsides to the pursuit of asteroid mining, said Paul Stimers, an attorney and space policy expert ... January that it aimed to send the vehicle to 2022 OB5.

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Last week, California-based space company AstroForge launched what ... millions of miles from Earth and scout it as a potential mining site. But mere hours after the spacecraft lifted off atop ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. By Jonathan O ...

NANJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be used for prospecting and mining on the moon or asteroids in the future.