A NASA mission called Psyche is about to launch on a mission out to an unusual asteroid that's scientists believe is largely composed of metal.

NASA's upcoming Psyche mission could be incredibly valuable — not only for planetary science but also for the budding asteroid mining industry.

NASA’s Psyche mission aims to lift off October 12 — and be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid that may be the exposed core of an early planetary building block.

NASA has launched a spacecraft to study the metal asteroid Psyche to determine whether it’s the exposed core of an early planetary building block.

A rendezvous with the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche is scheduled for 2029. NASA's mission to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche has fired up its ion engines and is now cruising across the solar ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will blaze an unusual blue trail across the solar system Its thrusters are going to get 10 million miles to the gallon of xenon. Briley Lewis Oct 17, 2023 12:00 PM EDT ...

NASA's mission to investigate the metal-rich asteroid "Psyche" has been delayed over the spacecraft’s thrusters, the agency announced last week. The launch of the Psyche spacecraft was pushed ...

NASA is about to find out. When NASA's Psyche spacecraft reaches its target asteroid, a mysterious world of metal, it will encounter landscapes like nothing ever seen before.

NASA's Psyche mission is on its way to visit a metal asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, and it recently kicked on its new blue-glowing electric thrusters.

Launched on Oct. 13, 2023, the NASA mission to visit the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche aims to find crucial clues about the formation of our solar system's planets.

NASA's Psyche mission on track for fall launch to metallic asteroid after yearlong delay NASA scientists hope that the 280-million mile, six-year journey to the asteroid could yield valuable ...

NASA launches asteroid-chasing Psyche mission for clues to how planets formed In a space-exploration-first, NASA's Psyche mission will explore an asteroid made mostly out of metal rather than rocks ...