NASA is heading to Psyche—an asteroid unlike anything we’ve ever explored, believed to be packed with metal instead of rock ...

NASA’s Psyche mission is on its way to meet an asteroid that is thought to contain $100,000 quadrillion worth of rare metals. The agency’s Psyche spacecraft won’t reach its target, the asteroid 16 ...

NASA's Psyche has set a new benchmark for space communications. In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 ...

A team prepares NASA’s Psyche spacecraft for launch inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Psyche will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy ...

For a few months, the United States Space Agency (NASA) has a history of ups and downs with the asteroid Psyche 16. Last April it was announced that the organism programmed a mission to said cosmic ...

An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA's Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could ...

NASA has moved a mission to visit asteroid 16 Psyche to 2026. The asteroid is estimated to be worth more than $10,000 quadrillion — more than the global economy — thanks to the nickel-iron metal that ...

It will soon be two years since American space agency NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft, sending it on a 257 million-mile (413 million km) journey to a namesake asteroid located between planets Mars ...