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More About Psyche The Psyche mission is led by ASU. Lindy Elkins-Tanton of the University of California, Berkeley is the principal investigator. A division of Caltech in Pasadena, JPL is responsible for the mission’s overall management, system engineering, integration and test, and mission operations. Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California, provided the high-power solar electric propulsion spacecraft chassis. ASU leads …

Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward. On schedule for its 2029 arrival at the asteroid Psyche, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft recently looked back toward home and captured images of Earth and our Moon from about 180 million miles (290 million kilometers) away. The images were obtained during one …

NEW YORK — The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. The new member of the lunar gang, announced Tuesday by NASA, appears to be just six miles (10 kilometers) wide. It was spotted by the telescope’s near-infrared camera during observations in February. Scientists think it hid for so long — even eluding the Voyager 2 …

NASA’s Curiosity rover continues its trek through the Martian terrain with a new stop that has captured both scientific and visual intrigue. In a blog update from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate on August 15, 2025, the rover team described its latest observations in an area known as The Boxworks, where oddly shaped rocks—some resembling clusters of fossilized eggs or even …

Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in space. With a background as a US Congressman, reality TV star, and television commentator, Duffy did not come to the position with a deep well of knowledge about spaceflight. He also already had a lot on his …

Editor’s Note: The headline of this article was updated on August 14 to to clarify the nature of the moonquake research. As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the surface of the Moon’s south polar region for the first time ever during the Artemis III mission, scientists are working on methods to determine the frequency of moonquakes along active faults …

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission is one step closer to its ambitious goal of sending astronauts around the Moon. According to recent updates from NASA, the Orion spacecraft, which will be at the heart of the mission, has successfully completed its propellant loading and is now advancing through critical phases of its preparation. This milestone comes after the spacecraft was moved …

President Trump signed a new executive order Wednesday (Aug. 13) aimed at accelerating U.S. commercial space activity by slashing what are described as regulatory delays and expanding the nation’s launch infrastructure. The order, “Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry,” directs multiple federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport construction and better support emerging in-space industries. Transportation Secretary and …

On Wednesday (Aug. 13), NASA announced that the four satellites of its exciting new sun-studying mission, PUNCH, have successfully reached their stations in orbit around our planet. They all lie along Earth’s day-night line to earn a continuous view of our star. PUNCH, which stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, is meant to do precisely what its …

For years, astronomers have suspected that an unseen planet may exist far beyond Neptune to explain unusual gravitational patterns in the Kuiper Belt. These patterns, such as the clustering and tilted orbits off distant objects, suggested the gravitational pull of a massive, undiscovered planet, possibly seven to 17 times Earth’s mass. Source link