London-based company Asteroid Mining Corporation plans to send its SCAR-E robot to the moon in a future mission headed by ...

Chinese scientists have developed a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which may be used for prospecting ...

NANJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be ...

Asteroid mining firms say mining for minerals on asteroids is just around the corner now, but not everyone is convinced (Credit: Getty Images) As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes ...

Space mining robots are confronted with geological exploration ... enabling traversal across uneven asteroid surfaces, the report said. Liu said they have achieved equivalent experiments for ...

The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, dubbed Odin, to visit an asteroid millions of miles from Earth and scout it as a potential mining site. But mere hours after ...

The wheels can handle relatively smooth asteroid terrain ... already applied for a patent for the prototype of this space mining robot. China plans to launch the Chang'e-7 probe around 2026 ...