An artist's visualization video showing the Psyche spacecraft getting closer to the asteroid. Five scientists gathered at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday (Oct. 10) to lay out the blueprints of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA probe launched into space Friday on a 2.2-billion-mile journey to a huge, metal-rich space rock in the main asteroid belt ...

A NASA JPL mission launched Friday, marking a space exploration milestone: the Psyche mission is the first time the space agency has sent a probe to a world primarily made of metal, rather than rocks ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—A roughly 3-ton spacecraft launched Friday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin a six-year trip to an enigma in the asteroid belt, an unusual metallic world the ...

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.

NASA's mission to investigate the metal-rich asteroid "Psyche" has been delayed over the spacecraft’s thrusters, the agency announced last week. The launch of the Psyche spacecraft was pushed back a ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifts off Oct. 13 carrying NASA's Psyche spacecraft. Credit: Jordan Sirokie Updated 12:45 p.m. Eastern about spacecraft establishing communications after launch. WASHINGTON — A ...

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 ...

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 ...

A NASA probe launched into space Friday on a 2.2-billion-mile journey to a huge, metal-rich space rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The Psyche spacecraft lifted off atop one of ...