NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal asteroid, has delivered a stunning perspective of ...

Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking ...

The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...

Psyche was discovered by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis on March 17, 1852. He named the asteroid for Psyche, the Greek goddess of the soul who was born mortal and married Eros (Roman ...

NASA 's highly-anticipated Psyche asteroid mission has been delayed by 24 hours because of bad weather. The US space agency was targeting today for lift-off, but will now attempt the launch at 10: ...

NASA’s new plan is to launch in July 2023 at the earliest, or perhaps in 2024. But this postponement won’t mean that Psyche will arrive at its destination just a year or two later than planned ...

After launch in August 2022, Psyche will get a gravity assist from Mars in May 2023 and arrive at its target in early 2026 after a 230 million miles/370 million kilometers journey from Earth.

It proposes that 16 Psyche is 82.5% metal, 7% low-iron pyroxene and 10.5% carbonaceous chondrite, which is likely the result of 16 Psyche being hit by other asteroids.