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

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

“That’s the honest truth.” But fear, Gialich emphasized, is an element of the job that he believes AstroForge should embrace ...

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

Space mining company AstroForge launched its Odin asteroid probe this week, but the mission is suffering from unknown issues.

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

AstroForge’s Odin, the first private asteroid mission, spins uncontrollably in space. With contact lost and time running out, ...

Two spacecraft launched just days ago are already experiencing serious technical issues, highlighting the unpredictable ...

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

The probe, known as Odin, is set to travel into deep space to make a pass by of an asteroid known as 2022 OB5 to detect if it ...

At the time of Gialich's update Saturday morning, the Odin spacecraft was over 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) from Earth and largely following its intended trajectory. On Friday, AstroForge ...

Odin, a small spacecraft built by U.S. space mining company AstroForge, piggybacked on the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday (Feb. 26) that sent the private Intuitive Machines ...