How does the concept of the psyche relate to scientific psychology? This post describes a new way of framing these two concepts. If we trace the origin of the word psychology, we find its root in the ...

An artist’s concept of asteroid Psyche. NASA is on the cusp of a unique new mission when its Psyche spacecraft blasts off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket later this week. When the solar-powered ...

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Getting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA's $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe roared into space atop a Falcon Heavy rocket Friday, setting off on a 2.2-billion-mile voyage to a rare, metal-rich ...

Launched on Oct. 13, 2023, the NASA mission to visit the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche aims to find crucial clues about the formation of our solar system's planets. When you purchase through links on ...

The probe launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, beginning a six-year journey to one of the most enigmatic worlds in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. By Kenneth Chang and Becky Ferreira ...

Five scientists gathered at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday (Oct. 10) to lay out the blueprints of an exhilarating space mission set to launch in just a couple of days. It's called Psyche.

NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the ...

In Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (streaming now on Peacock!) a lot of drama gets stirred up over a tiny piece of space rock (and the alien who shows up to claim it) when there are much more valuable ...

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You might have heard that the asteroid 16 Psyche, the target of NASA's upcoming Psyche mission, is worth $100,000 quadrillion. But how can you really pinpoint an asteroid's monetary value? But, of ...