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 ...

In addition to giving Psyche's thrusters a pretty cool neon blue glow, this xenon expulsion creates a gentle thrust to move the spacecraft — gentle enough to exert "the same amount of pressure ...

The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and gold.

Psyche was discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis. Because it was the 16th asteroid to be discovered, it is sometimes referred to as 16 Psyche. It’s named for the goddess ...

NASA’s Psyche Mission is tentatively scheduled to launch in October 2023, after a year-long delay from a planned launch window in August 2022. The project was announced in 2017 and is led by an ASU ...

This week in space we've got some beautiful maps of both the galaxy and NASA's next asteroid target, 16 Psyche. The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to science and there's a planetary ...