NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

In October 2023, NASA launched a mission toward 16 Psyche, a massive gold and metal-rich asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Estimated to hold precious metals worth around $100,000 quadrillion ...

A NASA JPL mission launched Friday, marking a space exploration milestone: the Psyche mission is the first time the space agency has sent a probe to a world primarily made of metal, rather than rocks ...

CAPE THIS MORNING. IT’S ALL PART OF NASA’S MISSION TO STUDY A FAR OFF ASTEROID LIFTING OFF ON THE LARGEST SPACE ROCKET IN USE. WESH 2 SPACE COAST BUREAU CHIEF SCOTT HEIDLER TAKES A LOOK AT THE LAUNCH ...

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology suggests we'll soon have a new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space.

Getting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA's $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe roared into space atop a Falcon Heavy rocket Friday, setting off on a 2.2-billion-mile voyage to a rare, metal-rich ...

Wedged between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the main asteroid belt contains over 1 million rocky objects, but perhaps few of them are as intriguing as Psyche. The metal-rich asteroid might have ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft has reached another milestone after it captured its "first light" images following its successful departure on Earth on October 13. Currently positioned 16 million miles away ...

This mosaic was made from "first light" images acquired by both of the cameras on NASA's Psyche spacecraft on Dec. 4, 2023. The field of view of this mosaic is about 8 degrees wide by 3.5 degrees tall ...