On May 15, 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft screamed past Mars at 12,333 mph, sweeping within 2,864 miles of the planet’s surface and firing its cameras the entire way. The result: a series of ...

The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it will study, recently performed a flyby of Mars to take advantage of its gravitational pull and continue its trajectory ...

Right now, a spacecraft named Psyche is headed to its namesake asteroid, 16 Psyche. The theory is that 16 Psyche, which lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may be made of precious ...

NASA has released the images Psyche took when it did a Mars flyby to get a gravity assist from the red planet on its way to the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche. One of the photos, which you can see above, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA spacecraft on its way to study a strange metal asteroid recently took a detour above Mars. And the striking images it ...

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PHOENIX - A spacecraft is headed to Mars and is expected to arrive in less than a year. An Arizona-based team ensured the spacecraft is equipped with a camera to capture never-before-seen pictures of ...

A Mars probe from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) may answer some longstanding questions about the Red Planet and its moons. The mission—dubbed MMX for “Martian Moons eXploration”—aims ...

A spacecraft traveling to Mars equipped with a camera built at Northern Arizona University captured an image of Earth and the moon before leaving. More than 30 students worked across multiple ...