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

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 ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has officially resumed full-time propulsion following a temporary suspension earlier this year.

Anyone who’s watched the 2021 black comedy ‘Don’t Look Up’ will recall the plans, proposed by Mark Rylance’s odious ...

Psyche is a NASA mission that will explore a 140-mile-wide (225 kilometers) metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche. The mission launched on Oct. 13, 2023, at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 GMT) atop a SpaceX ...

An illustration of the Psyche spacecraft and its asteroid. NASA Less than two years after launch, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft experienced a glitch in its propulsion system that’s now jeopardizing ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Despite foggy conditions Friday morning, NASA successfully launched its Psyche mission, which will determine if the Psyche asteroid is made up of the building block of a ...

The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is located in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is thought to be chock-full of valuable metals like gold, platinum and cobalt and therefore possibly ...