The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...

The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the ...

From nearly 290 million kilometers away, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its gaze homeward and captured an arresting glimpse ...

The Psyche spacecraft has been steadily making its way to its asteroid target, a fascinating metal-rich asteroid also named ...

The long-exposure images, some lasting up to 10 seconds, show Earth and the Moon shining against a starry backdrop in the constellation Aries. These tests are critical for calibrating the spacecraft's ...

The photographs were taken during scheduled checkouts of the spacecraft’s science instruments, crucial for calibrating its ...

16 Psyche, sometimes simply called Psyche, is a dense, metallic asteroid that is 280 kilometers (173 miles) across at its widest point and moves in a 378 million to 497-million-kilometer (235 ...

The history of the asteroid Psyche 16 dates back to 1852, when it was discovered by the Capodimonte observatory in Naples. This body, which orbits between Mars and Jupiter, is 226 kilometers in ...

NASA’s Psyche mission aims to lift off October 12 — and be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid that may be the exposed core of an early planetary building block.

National Asteroid Psyche won’t make you rich or hit Earth. NASA has another reason to visit it By Katie Camero Updated August 24, 2021 3:31 PM ...

The asteroid was first discovered on March 17, 1852, by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis, named for the Greek goddess of the soul who in mythology was born human, but married the Greek god ...

If the asteroid’s composition was mostly iron, Psyche would have to be about 52% empty space, according to the new density measurements. Nichols-Fleming and Alex Evans, co-author of the study ...