Asteroid mining has long been imagined as the next great leap for humanity—offering access to vast reserves of rare metals and resources beyond Earth. But could it also trigger economic collapse by ...

Fleet Space Technologies will survey an asteroid from space when the cruise ship-sized rock passes near Earth on Friday, ...

U.S. scientists confirm Earth's new quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, sharing our orbit for 60 more years. Learn how quasi-moons work and ...

Fleet Space Technologies, Australia’s leading space exploration company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with ExLabs ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / September 23, 2025 / TransAstra, a pioneer in space logistics and resource utilization, has been awarded a $2.5 million contract by NASA's Civil Commercial ...

NASA's Psyche mission and US startups are accelerating efforts to mine asteroids for valuable metals, promising vast riches ...

The arrival of mini moon could draw the attention of private companies and agencies focused on asteroid mining ...

Hayabusa2 visited the 900-metre asteroid Ryugu in 2018, returning samples to Earth in 2020. The spacecraft is now on an ...

NASA has estimated that the metals in these asteroids could be worth as much as $10 billion per person, and mining the richest ten asteroids could yield $1.5 trillion. However, the actual extraction ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

Initially thought to be about 30 metres wide and rotating once every 10 minutes, KY26 has now been found to measure just 11 ...