His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...

This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.

Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures.

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...

The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...

"I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge founder Matt Gialich said in a video update ...

SpaceX will launch Intuitive Machine’s Athena lunar lander toward the moon’s south pole on Wednesday, marking the latest ...

The Falcon 9 rocket, packed with exploratory payloads, is scheduled to blast off at 7:17 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 26.

A decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...