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 ...

Hydrated minerals have paradoxically been found by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on the surface of 16 Psyche, a ...

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 ...

Within that asteroid belt is a space rock known as 16 Psych, and it’s a serious heavyweight ... new research suggests that Psyche might be entirely made up of metal, meaning that it might ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

We keep some criteria under wraps, we spent a lot of capital making sure we're going after the right asteroid,' Mr Gialich says. If 16 Psyche is loaded with precious metals, it could be worth $ ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

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 ...

Reference Psyche is a NASA mission that will explore a 140-mile-wide (225 kilometers) metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche. To provide an insight into planetary formation. Europe's Hera mission to ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

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 ...