What if I told you there’s an asteroid worth more than the entire world’s economy? Meet 16 Psyche, a space rock made almost entirely of precious metals like gold, platinum, and nickel—giving it an ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The twin cameras onboard, part of the spacecraft’s imaging system, photographed ...

An artist’s impression of the Psyche asteroid. NASA / Supplied So far, scientists have only seen a small fraction of the asteroid’s orbit, which every four years goes in a wildly oblong path ...

NASA has chosen SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy as the launch vehicle for its mission to the asteroid known as Psyche. Psyche, a very special asteroid that is believed to be largely made of metal.