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 ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal asteroid, has delivered a stunning perspective of our home planet from deep space. Psyche launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy ...

A space probe is on its way to an asteroid that may be filled with valuable metals worth some $10,000,000,000,000,000,000, or ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope indicates Psyche could be covered in water and a chemical that combines with iron to form rust. Reading time 2 minutes When a NASA mission finally arrives at ...

Scientists have speculated that Psyche is the remnant of a planetesimal, the leftover metallic core of a failed planet. Further observations of the asteroid could hold clues to Psyche's chemical ...

Could a metallic asteroid contain water and what can this teach us about the asteroid’s formation and evolution? This is what a recent study due for publication in the Planetary Science Journal hopes ...

The enormous asteroid has been estimated to be worth $10,000 quadrillion—more than the entire economy on our planet—due to the high quantities of precious metals it contains, including gold, iron and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...