AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

Still, asteroid mining has the potential payback of a hundredfold or more, according to Dano. "Mining and returning platinum ...

Asteroid mining companies have tried for decades to ... Blas recently calculated that the price of a precious metal such as gold would need to jump 140,000-fold for astro mining to become profitable.

Asteroid mining might sound like something out of science fiction, but experts say it could be the path to out-of-this-world wealth. According to Matt Gialich, founder of space mining company ...

AstroForge's ultimate aim is to send a spacecraft to an asteroid, land on it and use an onboard refinery to mine the asteroid for precious metals. But the technology is still very much at the ...

A new gold (or platinum) mining rush ... Find out more about asteroid mining on the latest episode of BBC Click.

Still, asteroid mining has the potential payback of a hundredfold or more, according to Dano. “Mining and returning platinum or gold from asteroids could make a person a trillionaire overnight ...

A giant asteroid full of gold could fund existing industries on the planet, but it’s unlikely to spark a new industrial revolution. Just because asteroid mining will make more gold available ...

AstroForge, a US-based startup with plans to mine asteroids ... of Odin and is designed to return to the targeted metallic asteroid and dock with it by using magnets, as it is expected the ...

Asteroids are rich in precious metals and other valuable resources. But mining them presents considerable challenges. We discuss these, and consider how these spinning, rocky resources might be the ...