Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The first NASA spacecraft ...

The probe launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, beginning a six-year journey to one of the most enigmatic worlds in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. transcript A SpaceX Falcon Heavy ...

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Two new missions selected by NASA Wednesday will help scientists understand the beginnings of our solar system. The missions -- called Lucy and Psyche and expected to launch in 2021 and 2023 ...

NASA has only visited rocky and icy worlds before—never a heavy-metal world, where familiar geologic processes may unfold in a very alien way. One question is whether Psyche ever harbored ...

(CNN) — For the first time, a NASA mission is setting off on a distant journey to visit a metal world in our solar ... s instruments will also look for signs of differentiation on the asteroid ...

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MaxarASU/P. Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech The Psyche asteroid is so metal-rich, some scientists believe it’s the exposed core of a planetesimal, or a planet in the making that separated into layers.

Oct 13 (Reuters) - NASA on Friday launched a spacecraft from Florida on its way to Psyche, the largest of the several metal-rich asteroids known in our solar system and believed by scientists to ...

(CNN) — The first NASA spacecraft designed to study a metallic ... explore the solar system and the universe, and search for signs of life.” Engineers wanted to be absolutely certain that ...