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 ...

On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet. The boxy, ...

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 ...

Asteroid 16 Psyche the large nickel-iron core of an early planet. Asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The Psyche spacecraft will arrive at the asteroid in 2029. This image elements ...

NASA’s Psyche probe, on a mission to explore the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche, recently captured remarkable images of Earth and the Moon from 180 million miles away. These stunning visuals, taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a landmark event, NASA has launched an uncrewed spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid – the first planetary body of its kind to get a visit from a human-made probe. The Psyche mission, named ...