NASA’s Webb telescope has confirmed the presence of hydrated minerals on the surface of Psyche 16, a ... [+] massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb ...

Psyche is a spacecraft built to explore a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid called 16 Psyche, which scientists think may be packed full of iron, nickel and gold with a value in excess of $10,000 ...

near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022. 16 Psyche is a rare metal asteroid possibly comprised of iron, nickel and gold, but that’s based only on observations of its ...

The craft is heading to a metal world - an asteroid called 16 Psyche - which telescopic observations suggest is made from up to 60% iron and nickel. Scientists think it may be the remnant core of ...

The findings suggest the hydration exists as rust and may shed light on how this enigmatic object formed. The asteroid 16 Psyche is pretty unusual for the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

A gigantic, metallic asteroid dubbed 16 Psyche lurking in the constellation of Capricornus is estimated to be worth a staggering $100,000 quadrillion because scientists believe it's chock full of ...

16 Psyche is part of the asteroid belt - the sprawling mass of planetary leftovers that orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. About the size of the US state of Massachusetts, Psyche is the ...

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An asteroid is headed towards Earth. It's not going to hit us, but it is going to hang out for a couple of months. A recently ...

Psyche, also known as 16 Psyche, was the 16th asteroid ever discovered, by an Italian astronomer named Annibale de Gasparis in 1852. Gasparis named it after the Greek goddess of the soul ...