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.

Less than two years after launch, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft experienced a glitch in its propulsion system that’s now jeopardizing its mission to explore a unique metallic asteroid in the main belt.

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 ...

A NASA illustration shows the 16 Psyche asteroid and the Psyche space probe (inset). This asteroid is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals like gold, platinum ...