If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s next asteroid mission will attempt to visit the space rock called 16 Psyche.

Psyche mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton said during a press conference. "What might landing challenges be? What is the topography? Is it covered with some kind of regolith [dirt]?

Leshin picks up a quick lunch in the JPL cafeteria. End of carousel JPL’s struggles with the Psyche mission, and the cascading effects on Veritas, are out of character for this swashbuckling lab.

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...

NASA to launch Psyche mission on October 12 to reveal mysteries of the metal-rich asteroid Psyche mission, the first such to a metal-rich asteroid, may be able to tell the world "how rocky planets ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech Oct 5: NASA Psyche mission In the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, there is an object that is mostly made of metal, perhaps the leftover core of a would-be planet ...