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$10,000 Quadrillion Worth of Gold Is Orbiting Earth, Here’s Where It Is

In October 2023, NASA launched a mission toward 16 Psyche, a massive gold and metal-rich asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Estimated to hold precious metals worth around $100,000 quadrillion ...
Ars Technica

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid, but now it’s running in backup mode

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unexplored metal-rich asteroid has reignited its plasma thrusters, continuing its cruise deeper into the Solar System after switching to a backup fuel line. The $1.4 ...
Yahoo

$100,000 quadrillion asteroid Psyche may be the product of metal volcanoes, study hints

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Proof that metal-spewing vents caused Psyche's metallic sheen includes metal flows — akin to ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Psyche Mission Suffers Strange Glitch on Its Way to a Metallic Asteroid

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to understand the origins of Earth. Although it’s still a few years ...
Futurism

NASA Spacecraft Runs Into Thruster Trouble En Route to Zillion-Dollar Asteroid

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 that ...
Space.com

Psyche asteroid probe uses lasers to phone home from 218 million miles away

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology suggests we'll soon have a new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space.