TransAstra, a California-based startup, is making strides in the field of space resource utilization with its innovative giant inflatable bag technology. This technology is designed to capture ...

One MIT scientist says NASA's ARM mission is doomed to irrelevance, and that we could use asteroids much better on our path to the Red Planet. Don't worry though, because Binzel isn't just tearing ...

Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in reaching them, a few startups say these celestial bodies could offer a sustainable ...

WASHINGTON - It's been a while since NASA's been known as a place for space cowboys. But the nickname could make a comeback if the space agency can pull off a new mission that even supporters admit ...

(Washington, DC — April 11, 2013) — The National Space Society (NSS) applauds the new NASA budget item that would provide close to $100 million for a mission to rendezvous with a small asteroid and ...

NASA unveiled a $17.7 billion spending plan for 2014 today (April 10) that continues major ongoing space exploration projects, while including funds to kick-start an audacious new mission to capture a ...

The prospect of mining asteroids may sound like science fiction, but that's exactly what the ambitious new company Planetary Resources, Inc. plans to do — and a recent study by NASA, university and ...

It’s not quite Armageddon but NASA revealed a concept video animation detailing how NASA would find, capture, re-direct and study a near-Earth asteroid. In the animation by NASA, you can see a crew of ...

HOUSTON — NASA’s recently concluded Asteroid Initiative Idea Synthesis workshop is providing the agency’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) planners with new momentum for the agency’s two-phase ...

NASA’s fiscal 2014 budget request will include $100 million for a new mission to find a small asteroid, capture it with a robotic spacecraft and bring it into range of human explorers somewhere in the ...