The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical ...

Uncover the mysteries of Psyche, the metal monster beyond Mars! Join NASA's groundbreaking Psyche mission as it journeys to a ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

Bitcoin can't ever experience the same type of problem. What's more, NASA launched a probe in late 2023 and expects it to ...

Anyone who’s watched the 2021 black comedy ‘Don’t Look Up’ will recall the plans, proposed by Mark Rylance’s odious billionaire Sir Peter Isherwell, to mine a comet that is hurtling towards Earth. And ...

Imagine a rock floating between Mars and Jupiter with an estimated value of $10,000 quadrillion. It is not an exaggeration.

Psyche, spanning 173 miles (280 km) at its widest, stands out in the asteroid belt. Long thought to be the exposed metallic ...

NASA used SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to send the spacecraft Psyche, named after the asteroid, from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A at 10:19 a.m. ET, both the space agency and ...

Psyche is a 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer) asteroid that may be the stripped-down core of a shattered planetesimal, one of the building blocks that come together to form a planet.