NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has hit a snag on its journey. As reported in a NASA blog post from April 29, 2025, the spacecraft has encountered ...

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At 950 feet in diameter, the asteroid is about the size of a typical stadium, or three football fields. The Virtual Telescope Project plans ... which NASA compares to the size of a stadium ...

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the project to move forward with full-scale fabrication of the spacecraft ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in just a few hours. The gigantic space rock, which NASA compares to the size of a ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid ... How scientists worldwide work to predict space threats Space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), in association with global ...

An illustration of the Psyche spacecraft and its asteroid. NASA The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to ...

WASHINGTON, May 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a live Twitch event to highlight the ongoing Moon Mascot Challenge, which invites the public to design a zero gravity indicator for the ...