Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of the Psyche spacecraft surveying the massive, metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche. On Friday (Oct. 13) NASA's Psyche ...

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On the morning of Oct. 12, if everything goes to plan, NASA will be sending a high-tech spacecraft called Psyche on a 2.2 billion mile journey to an intriguing asteroid by the same name. Well, to be ...

Scientists have devised one of the most detailed maps yet of the asteroid, "Psyche," ahead of a mission to investigate the chunk of rock later this year. The map, released in the paper "The ...

NASA’s 16 Psyche mission is back on, with an expected launch late this year. Psyche is a metal-rich asteroid, about 140 miles in diameter. The mining potential of the metallic 16 Psyche is unlike any ...

NASA's mission to investigate the metal-rich asteroid "Psyche" has been delayed over the spacecraft’s thrusters, the agency announced last week. The launch of the Psyche spacecraft was pushed back a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The asteroid 16 Psyche, which NASA intends to visit with a spacecraft in 2026, may be less heavy metal and more hard rock than scientists have surmised, according ...

We develop a shape model of asteroid 16 Psyche using observations acquired in a wide range of wavelengths: Arecibo S-band delay-Doppler imaging, Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) plane-of-sky ...

In a landmark event, NASA has launched an uncrewed spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid — the first planetary body of its kind to get a visit from a human-made probe. The Psyche mission, named ...

JPL isn't out of the woods, but the internal review board is pleased with the changes made so far. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens ...