NASA's Psyche mission is en route to a metal-rich asteroid, aiming to understand its composition, while US startups are actively developing technologies for asteroid mining. Asteroids hold ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Despite foggy conditions Friday morning, NASA successfully launched its Psyche mission, which will determine if the Psyche asteroid is made up of the building block of a planet.

ESA has made Europe’s first deep-space optical link with NASA’s Psyche mission. ESA’s multi-beam high-power fiber laser transmission system. On July 7, the European Space Agency (ESA), established ...

On July 7, ESA, the European Space Agency, successfully established Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link with NASA’s Psyche mission using a high-power fiber laser system from NKT ...

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unexplored metal-rich asteroid has reignited its plasma thrusters, continuing its cruise deeper into the Solar System after switching to a backup fuel line. The $1.4 ...

NASA's ambitious mission to study asteroid 16 Psyche is now underway, marking a major step in our efforts to understand the early formation of planets. Launched on October 13, 2023, the spacecraft is ...

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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 ...

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, ...

🚀 What if I told you there’s an asteroid worth more than the entire world’s economy? Meet 16 Psyche, a space rock made almost entirely of precious metals like gold, platinum, and nickel—giving it an ...

There’s an asteroid, just six years away, worth a hundred quintillion dollars. It’s called 16 Psyche. A little over a year ago, NASA launched a mission to it. We’ll reach it in 2029. And it’s not ...