NASA has greenlit a mission to explore the metal-heavy asteroid Psyche, which could represent the exposed core of a long-dead planet. The survival of the mission had previously been called into ...

NASA’s mission to the still, metal heart of a proto-planet isn’t dead after all. The agency announced on October 28 that after months of scrutiny, an independent review board has decided it’s possible ...

A GIANT asteroid twice as wide as Wales contains enough metal to make everyone on Earth a billionaire. The cosmic lump called Psyche 16 sits 230million miles from Earth and is one of the heaviest ...

For a few months, the United States Space Agency (NASA) has a history of ups and downs with the asteroid Psyche 16. Last April it was announced that the organism programmed a mission to said cosmic ...

Scientists have devised one of the most detailed maps yet of the asteroid, "Psyche," ahead of a mission to investigate the chunk of rock later this year. The map, released in the paper "The ...

The wealth is out there. A single asteroid floating through our solar system might be worth more than the Earth’s entire global economy, based on new scans conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope.

On Thursday, NASA is planning to launch a new mission to explore what it calls a “metal-rich asteroid”. The agency says what it learns there could explain more about our own planet. Mark Brown with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA is preparing to explore a world made of metal.

A new study by the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a clearer picture than ever before of one of the most intriguing and most valuable asteroids we know of. It’s also one that NASA is planning to ...