"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 pounds per square inch (psi) to about 26 psi," NASA said in the recent ...

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

No spacecraft has ever visited an object like 16 Psyche, which is thought to be the exposed core of a demolished planet. The mission will have a big impact on astronomy. Along with the Lucy ...

NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has hit a snag on its journey. As reported in a NASA blog post from April 29, 2025, the spacecraft has encountered issues ...

In the swirling ring of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, one space rock has attracted far more attention than any other. It's known as 16 Psyche. The metal-rich asteroid has made headlines ...

An illustration of the Psyche spacecraft and its asteroid. NASA The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to ...

NASA launched a spacecraft—also named Psyche—to investigate the asteroid from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 13, 2023, but it won't arrive until August 2029. Psyche is a large ...

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft headed to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft launched in October 2023 and ...

For space travel beyond Earth’s orbit, the challenge is less about having powerful engines and more about conserving fuel. The engines on Psyche, called Hall thrusters, could run continuously ...

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 ...

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On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet.