NASA has chosen SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy as the launch vehicle for its mission to the asteroid known as Psyche. Psyche, a very special asteroid that is believed to be largely made of metal.

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

Psyche Mission: First to Metal, an Origin Story is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

The mission is supposed to be part of the ... Planetary scientists think the Psyche asteroid is an archaeological treasure, a remnant of the early, violent era of the solar system when thousands ...

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But fear, Gialich emphasized, is an element of the job that he believes AstroForge should embrace as the company prepares to launch its robotic spacecraft, Odin, on an asteroid flyby mission that ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The twin cameras onboard, part of the spacecraft’s imaging system, photographed ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

The spacecraft will eject a capsule full of asteroid samples that will parachute to the Utah Test and Training Range to be studied by scientists. NASA/JPL-Caltech Oct 5: NASA Psyche mission In the ...