Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of the Psyche spacecraft surveying the massive, metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche. On Friday (Oct. 13) NASA's Psyche ...

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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 ...

Scientists have devised one of the most detailed maps yet of the asteroid, "Psyche," ahead of a mission to investigate the chunk of rock later this year. The map, released in the paper "The ...

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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 ...

The widely studied metallic asteroid known as 16 Psyche was long thought to be the exposed iron core of a small planet that failed to form during the earliest days of the solar system. But new ...

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 ...