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, ...

No spacecraft has ever visited an object like 16 Psyche, which is thought to be the exposed core of a demolished planet. The mission will have a big impact on astronomy. Along with the Lucy ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

Like all missions exploring the Solar System, the Psyche spacecraft has a long journey to reach its destination, covering some 2.2 billion miles (3.6 billion kilometers) with the help of plasma ...

The spacecraft is en route to a metal-rich asteroid. Hopefully, its backup propellant line can get it there by August 2029.

The Psyche mission lifted off at 10:19 a.m. ET Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Psyche will be the first of many upcoming NASA science ...

NASA has decided to switch to a backup propellant line on its Psyche asteroid mission to allow the spacecraft to resume use ...

Diagnosing a borkage from a million miles away NASA's Psyche spacecraft is back in business after engineers successfully ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away from Earth on Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid. Most asteroids tend to be rocky or icy, and this is ...

Like the probe itself, Psyche's propulsion system is blazing new trails. This is the first time, the mission team says, that this specific mechanism of zipping through space has been used on a ...