NASA's Psyche spacecraft will get a boost from Mars on Friday, May 15, passing just 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometers) from the ...

Tanton, principal investigator of NASA’s Psyche mission, explains in her new book how lessons from interplanetary exploration ...

Rare Mars crescent: Psyche spacecraft imaged Mars as a thin crescent, revealing atmospheric scattering effects and polar seasonal changes. Gravity assist boost: On May 15, Psyche will pass 2,800 miles ...

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Psyche probe, folded inside the cargo bay of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, was slated for blastoff at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 GMT) from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center. Scientists hope to learn more about ...

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 ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will use Mars’ gravity on May 15 to gain speed and adjust its path toward the mysterious metal rich ...

On the morning of Oct. 12, if everything goes to plan, NASA will be sending a high-tech spacecraft called Psyche on a 2.2 billion mile journey to an intriguing asteroid by the same name. Well, to be ...

NASA's Psyche mission is set to arrive at a main belt asteroid also named Psyche in 2029. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU AMSTERDAM — NASA has decided to switch to a backup propellant line on its Psyche ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

In 2022, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch a NASA spacecraft to explore the distant asteroid Psyche, sitting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But this is no ordinary asteroid: A new ...