When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

An Orbital Sciences Antares rocket lifting off from Wallops, Va., to resupply the International Space Station exploded on liftoff a short time ago. The payload included the Arkyd 3, the first test ...

Workers prepare Planetary Resources’ Arkyd-6 technology demonstrator satellite for shipment at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (Planetary Resources via YouTube) Planetary Resources has ...

Some of Planetary Resources' asteroid-mining tech just passed a major space test. The Washington-based company's tiny Arkyd-6 satellite has completed all its mission goals in Earth orbit, just three ...

Despite half a century of rushing about the Solar System, the Space Age has been a spectator sport for most of humanity. On Wednesday, at a press conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A private spaceflight company took one small step for asteroid mining this week with the launch ...

Planetary Resources just took another big step toward its asteroid-mining goal. The company's Arkyd-6 satellite rode to space last night (Jan. 11) atop an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

A tweet from Redmond’s Planetary Resources rolled out late Tuesday evening: “A3 was just a robot! We are making more.” Earlier that day, an unmanned Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet, a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, in an effort to advance scientific research, development, and discovery from the NICFI Satellite Data ...