Gizmodo

Metallic Asteroid Psyche Is Surprisingly Soggy

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope indicates Psyche could be covered in water and a chemical that combines with iron to form rust. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes When a NASA mission ...
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Will NASA's Mission to $10 Quintillion Psyche Asteroid Make Us All Rich?

A space probe is on its way to an asteroid that may be filled with valuable metals worth some $10,000,000,000,000,000,000, or $10 quintillion. The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is located in the Asteroid ...
Houston Chronicle

Asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion is rusting, new study reveals

Scientists have speculated that Psyche is the remnant of a planetesimal, the leftover metallic core of a failed planet. Further observations of the asteroid could hold clues to Psyche's chemical ...
Yahoo

$100,000 quadrillion asteroid Psyche may be rusting, James Webb telescope reveals

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have ...
Ars Technica

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid, but now it’s running in backup mode

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unexplored metal-rich asteroid has reignited its plasma thrusters, continuing its cruise deeper into the Solar System after switching to a backup fuel line. The $1.4 ...
Newsweek

The $10 Quintillion Object Floating Through Space

NASA's mission to an asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 ($10 quintillion) is well on its way, using ion thrusters to get there by the end of the decade. The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is ...
Futurism

NASA Spacecraft Runs Into Thruster Trouble En Route to Zillion-Dollar Asteroid

NASA’s Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid — worth, according to some estimates, more than the Earth’s entire world economy — has hit a snag. On Tuesday, the space agency announced that ...
RealClearScience

Evidence of Hydration on Metallic Asteroid Psyche

Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a Southwest Research Institute-led team has confirmed hydroxyl molecules on the surface of the metallic asteroid Psyche. The presence of hydrated ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Psyche Mission Suffers Strange Glitch on Its Way to a Metallic Asteroid

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to understand the origins of Earth. Although it’s still a few years ...
Labroots

Webb Telescope Unveils Evidence of Water and Hydration on Asteroid Psyche

Could a metallic asteroid contain water and what can this teach us about the asteroid’s formation and evolution? This is what a recent study due for publication in the Planetary Science Journal hopes ...
SpaceNews

NASA Continues Psyche Asteroid Mission

The mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software in preparation for the 2023 launch date. NASA announced Friday the agency decided its Psyche mission will go forward, ...