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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the ...