On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet. The boxy, ...

NASA’s Psyche Mission, launched on October 13, 2023, is on its way to explore 16 Psyche, a massive metallic asteroid valued at an astonishing $10 quintillion—enough to hypothetically make every person ...

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to understand the origins of Earth. Although it’s still a few years ...

As the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS prepares for its close flyby of Earth, debate over its origins and behavior has ...

NASA’s Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid — worth, according to some estimates, more than the Earth’s entire world economy — has hit a snag. On Tuesday, the space agency announced that ...

Artist rendering of the Psyche spacecraft in orbit around its namesake asteroid. The robotic spacecraft Psyche has regained propulsion after a snag cut its propellant system in April. Engineers had to ...

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft headed to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft launched in October 2023 and will ...

The spacecraft is en route to a metal-rich asteroid. Hopefully, its backup propellant line can get it there by August 2029. Reading time 3 minutes Less than two years after launch, NASA’s Psyche ...

A celestial visitor from beyond our solar system has become the unwitting protagonist in a global test of humanity's ability to spot potential threats from the deep. While the interstellar comet ...

An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA's Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is depicted receiving a laser signal from the Deep Space Optical Communications uplink ground station at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility in this artist’s concept. The DSOC ...

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 ...