NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in 2023, will study a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid, with new research showing that its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA’s Webb telescope has confirmed the presence of hydrated ...

When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in "The Empire Strikes Back," and we often hear how they are remnants from the birth ...

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Hydrated minerals have paradoxically been found by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on the surface of 16 Psyche, a metallic asteroid that's the target of a NASA mission that launched in October ...

NASA’s 16 Psyche mission is back on, with an expected launch late this year. Psyche is a metal-rich asteroid, about 140 miles in diameter. The mining potential of the metallic 16 Psyche is unlike any ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the first mission ever sent to a metal-rich asteroid, is crossing billions of kilometers of space ...

We develop a shape model of asteroid 16 Psyche using observations acquired in a wide range of wavelengths: Arecibo S-band delay-Doppler imaging, Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) plane-of-sky ...

While the combined ASU and NASA Psyche mission may take six years to reach the 16 Psyche asteroid, this is not a waiting period for the multiple instrument teams involved, who are deep into their ...

NASA has announced a new mission to a metal-rich asteroid called 16 Psyche. The metals that 16 Psyche is thought to contain would be worth $100 quintillion on Earth. But NASA isn't going to mine the ...

Asteroid 16 Psyche, one of the largest and most enigmatic objects in the asteroid belt, is set to be the focal point of NASA’s Psyche mission in 2029. But as scientists eagerly await the spacecraft’s ...

This week in space we've got some beautiful maps of both the galaxy and NASA's next asteroid target, 16 Psyche. The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to science and there's a planetary ...