The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...

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

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

A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...

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

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

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

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California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...

The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals in space, and he is all too aware that success is not guaranteed.And, quite ...

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 ...