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 ...
LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / March 18, 2026 / TransAstra, a Los Angeles-based space infrastructure company, is conducting an investor- and customer-funded study to define a mission to capture a ...
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 ...
A California-based aerospace startup is turning science fiction into reality with a new invention that could change how we mine asteroids and clean up space junk. TransAstra’s Capture Bag, an ...
NASA is looking for a 25-foot, 500-ton needle in a haystack. The “needle” is an errant space rock originally from the asteroid belt, and the “haystack” is the interplanetary space of our solar system.