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

His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold ...

AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...

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"I think we all know the hope is fading as we continue the mission," AstroForge founder Matt Gialich said in a video update ...

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

"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...

Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures.

A decade ago, news stories were aflutter about the wealth promised by asteroid mining companies. But things didn't quite work ...

The Falcon 9 rocket, packed with exploratory payloads, is scheduled to blast off at 7:17 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 26.

OB5 is said to consist of raw materials that could be worth mining. The Odin probe is to take a closer look at the celestial ...

A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...