NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the ...

An artist's visualization video showing the Psyche spacecraft getting closer to the asteroid. Five scientists gathered at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday (Oct. 10) to lay out the blueprints of ...

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It’s not just hard rock, it’s metal. Credit: NASA Last week, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Center. It’s now on a six-year trip to an asteroid, also called ...

One year after NASA announced an indefinite delay of a much-anticipated mission to visit a metal-rich asteroid, the agency said Monday that the Psyche spacecraft is back on track. The Psyche mission ...

TITUSVILLE, Florida—NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is running a year behind schedule before the beginning of its journey to explore a metal asteroid, but mission managers said Friday the probe is ...

NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the ...