On Friday (Oct. 13) NASA's Psyche spacecraft blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. In 2029, after traveling 2.2 billion miles (3.5 billion kilometers), ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. You may ...

A unique metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter may turn out to be a pile of rubble much like Bennu, the asteroid recently sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. About 230 million ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A NASA spacecraft will depart this August on a mission to ...

You can see and learn about the huge, bizarre metallic asteroid 16 Psyche — the target of a newly announced NASA space mission — during a free webcast by the Slooh Community Observatory Friday evening ...

An asteroid that scientists have previously estimated to be worth a staggering $10,000 quadrillion due to the potential value of its resources could be a "rubble pile," the lead author of a new study ...

Somewhere out in space between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid 16 Psyche orbits the sun. And NASA is headed there soon. The mission offers the opportunity to explore the science—and possible mining ...