"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 pounds per square inch (psi) to about 26 psi," NASA said in the recent ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped ...

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 issues ...

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 ...

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft headed to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft launched in October 2023 and ...

Scientists are urging NASA to act quickly on concepts for repurposing a pair of NASA smallsats to visit the asteroid Apophis ...

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 ...

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa ...

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU WASHINGTON — NASA is investigating a problem with the electric propulsion system on its Psyche asteroid spacecraft, but an agency official said it is not currently a ...

The missions -- called Lucy and Psyche and expected to launch in 2021 and 2023, respectively -- will send robotic spacecraft to asteroids thought to be leftovers from the dawn of planet formation ...

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.