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

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

the founder and chief executive of the Asteroid Mining Corporation in Britain. His company is taking a slower approach and plans to demonstrate technologies on the moon later this decade.

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

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

The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside a robotic moon lander ... If the asteroid is as rich in the metals as hoped the first mining expeditions could follow.

But with asteroid mining, no company has yet accomplished ... a private sector company to travel to deep space, or beyond the moon. The spacecraft is set to spend a little under a year traveling ...

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

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