"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

Why This 16th Asteroid Is the Most Wanted One Ever! ☄️✨ Scientists are going crazy over an asteroid called 16 Psyche, and for ...

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

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...

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

If you thought space was a quiet place, NASA just proved otherwise. The agency recently received a laser signal sent from 460 ...

NASA is investigating a problem with the electric propulsion system on its Psyche asteroid spacecraft, but an agency official ...

Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...

NASA’s Psyche mission to a $10,000 quadrillion metal asteroid hit a snag with thrust loss, but backup systems offer hope to ...

In a blog post published last week, NASA revealed that the mission team noted a drop in fuel pressure of Psyche's propulsion ...

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 ...

The boxy, solar-winged craft is headed to the peculiar object for which it is named: 16 Psyche, an asteroid that appears to have an unusually high metal content. The complication surrounds a ...