Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

The boxy, solar-winged craft is headed to the peculiar object for which it is named: 16 Psyche, an asteroid that appears to have an unusually high metal content. The complication surrounds a ...

On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet. The boxy, ...

The mind-melting value of the '16 Psyche' asteroid has been explained by its official estimator Linda Elkins-Tanton. NASA has a specific interest in this celestial entity and announced back in ...

No? Wehehehell let me explain. The asteroid, called 16 psyche, is made up almost entirely of iron and nickel, similar to the core of the Earth. What’s crazy is, if someone were able to get a hold of ...

The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is located in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is thought to be chock-full of valuable metals like gold, platinum and cobalt and therefore possibly ...

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A gigantic, metallic asteroid dubbed 16 Psyche lurking in the constellation of Capricornus is estimated to be worth a staggering $100,000 quadrillion because scientists believe it's chock full of ...

Hydrated minerals have paradoxically been found by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on the surface of 16 Psyche, a metallic asteroid that's the target of a NASA mission that launched in ...