When it comes time for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft to power itself through deep space, it’ll be more brain than brawn that does the work. Once the stuff of science fiction, the efficient and quiet power ...

NASA has given the okay to its long-delayed US$985 million Psyche deep-space mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid, also called Psyche, that may be worth as much as $10 quadrillion, or 90 times the ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifts off Oct. 13 carrying NASA's Psyche spacecraft. Credit: Jordan Sirokie Updated 12:45 p.m. Eastern about spacecraft establishing communications after launch. WASHINGTON — A ...

[UPDATE: NASA has called off Thursday’s launch due to poor weather conditions and is now targeting Friday, October 13. Full details below] NASA will launch its latest mission, Psyche, this week. The ...

The Psyche spacecraft launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on Friday at 10:19 a.m. ET, kickstarting a highly-anticipated mission. Reading time 3 minutes Update: October, 13, 11:17 a.m. ET: Psyche is ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft has just flown closer to Mars than the planet's own moons en route to the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche. It was a planned maneuver so that the spacecraft can get gravity assist ...

Getting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA's $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe roared into space atop a Falcon Heavy rocket Friday, setting off on a 2.2-billion-mile voyage to a rare, metal-rich ...

NASA is preparing to launch a mission to a one-of-a-kind asteroid called Psyche – which may actually be the exposed metal core of what was once a young planet. The mission, also called Psyche, is ...

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This artist's concept depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA's mission of the ...