On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet. The boxy, ...

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft headed to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft launched in October 2023 and will ...

The asteroid Psyche may have once had vents that spewed molten metal — but only if it is chemically similar to rare, metal-rich meteorites, a new study suggests. The study, which was published online ...

This mission follows NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on its journey to a rare metal-rich asteroid, believed to be the exposed core ...

A NASA JPL mission launched Friday, marking a space exploration milestone: the Psyche mission is the first time the space agency has sent a probe to a world primarily made of metal, rather than rocks ...

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to understand the origins of Earth. Although it’s still a few years ...

Relevance to NASA’s Psyche Mission One of the most exciting parts of this discovery is its connection to NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in 2023 and on its way to asteroid Psyche, one of the largest M ...

NASA’s Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid — worth, according to some estimates, more than the Earth’s entire world economy — has hit a snag. On Tuesday, the space agency announced that ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...