YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

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

California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history.

Could asteroid mining make the first trillionaire? It sounds like a sci-fi dream: extracting gold, platinum, and rare metals from space rocks and bringing them back to Earth for unlimited wealth. But ...

As for AstroForge's Odin asteroid-mining scout, unfortunately, like the Lunar Trailblazer, Odin has also fallen out of ...

AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch beneath the private ...

The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...

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

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

It was supposed to be the start of asteroid mining. But it looks like the mission has failed. AstroForge has lost contact ...

Odin, a commercial spacecraft launched by the Seal Beach-based startup AstroForge to prepare for asteroid mining, “appears to ...