NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and gold.

Hydrated minerals have paradoxically been found by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on the surface of 16 Psyche, a metallic asteroid that's the target of a NASA mission that launched in ...

Psyche has been a subject of fascination due to its metallic makeup and possible origins. NASA launched a spacecraft, also named Psyche, in October 2023 to study the asteroid.

A new James Webb Space Telescope analysis of the giant, metal-rich asteroid Psyche reveals signs of hydration in the form of rust. This could help pin down the mysterious rock's origins.

The metallic asteroid Psyche, shown in this artist’s concept, may be the exposed iron-nickel core — or a fragment of one — from a larger object early in the solar system. But it is likely ...

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.

Psyche powers through them with the help of talking animal friends and Cupid’s godly relatives. She passes out due to stress, exhaustion and a cursed make-up jar (seriously, it’s in the Latin).

We can think of NASA’s mission to Psyche as a journey to the centre of Earth without having to travel down through the planet’s rocky crust, the slowly moving mantle and the liquid core.

Science Space NASA 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. By Briley Lewis ...