The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is ...

What’s New – The Psyche mission is now on track to launch in October 2023, which means it could reach its namesake destination in August 2029 after a gravity-assist swing past Mars in 2026.

Psyche is a NASA mission that will explore a 140-mile-wide (225 kilometers) metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche. The mission launched on Oct. 13, 2023, at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 GMT) atop a SpaceX ...

NASA just launched the Psyche mission—no one knows what it will find Psyche is going to a metal world with plasma engines and lasers. It's not sci-fi.

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.

NASA's Psyche mission on track for fall launch to metallic asteroid after yearlong delay NASA scientists hope that the 280-million mile, six-year journey to the asteroid could yield valuable ...

The distant metallic asteroid named Psyche bears similarities to Earth's own core. That's why NASA scientists have wanted to study it for years.

NASA’s upcoming Psyche mission will send a small probe to a unique metal asteroid—a curious object that may be the exposed heart of a former planet. But to prepare for the 280-million-mile ...

NASA’s Psyche Mission, launched on October 13, 2023, is on its way to explore 16 Psyche, a massive metallic asteroid valued at an astonishing $10 quintillion—enough to hypothetically make ...

The Psyche mission, named after the asteroid 16 Psyche, which the spacecraft will explore, was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 10:19 a.m. Friday.

The probe, which is named after Psyche, will blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX rocket, and its first opportunity to launch comes Thursday morning at 10:16 a.m. EDT.