NASA’s Psyche Mission Faces New Mystery As It Nears Mars Flyby

NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in 2023, will study a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid, with new research showing that its ...
Forbes

There May Be Water On Psyche, The Asteroid ‘Worth $10,000 Quadrillion’

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s Webb telescope has confirmed the presence of hydrated ...

Giant craters may reveal if Psyche is a lost planetary core

When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in "The Empire Strikes Back," and we often hear how they are remnants from the birth ...
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Researchers probe whether asteroid Psyche is a shattered planet’s core

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the first mission ever sent to a metal-rich asteroid, is crossing billions of kilometers of space ...
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Psyche spacecraft's sci-fi thrusters suffer glitch on way to metal-rich asteroid

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On Tuesday (April 29), NASA ...
AOL

NASA Is Sending a Spaceship to a Metal World Called 16 Psyche

NASA’s 16 Psyche mission is back on, with an expected launch late this year. Psyche is a metal-rich asteroid, about 140 miles in diameter. The mining potential of the metallic 16 Psyche is unlike any ...
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Is asteroid Psyche actually a planetary core? James Webb Space Telescope results cast doubt

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 October ...
SpaceNews

Asteroid 16 Psyche: Shape, Features, and Global Map

We develop a shape model of asteroid 16 Psyche using observations acquired in a wide range of wavelengths: Arecibo S-band delay-Doppler imaging, Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) plane-of-sky ...
Arizona State Press

ASU Mission to Psyche has launched: What's on board?

While the combined ASU and NASA Psyche mission may take six years to reach the 16 Psyche asteroid, this is not a waiting period for the multiple instrument teams involved, who are deep into their ...
Business Insider

NASA is visiting an asteroid valued at more than the entire world economy's worth, but that's not why it's going there

NASA has announced a new mission to a metal-rich asteroid called 16 Psyche. The metals that 16 Psyche is thought to contain would be worth $100 quintillion on Earth. But NASA isn't going to mine the ...
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Asteroid 16 Psyche’s craters could hold the answers to its mysterious formation

Asteroid 16 Psyche, one of the largest and most enigmatic objects in the asteroid belt, is set to be the focal point of NASA’s Psyche mission in 2029. But as scientists eagerly await the spacecraft’s ...
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launches, beginning a first-of-its-kind mission

In a landmark event, NASA has launched an uncrewed spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid – the first planetary body of its kind to get a visit from a human-made probe. The Psyche mission, named ...