D-printed material can off-gas a coolant, which acts as a barrier against heat buildup during descent and atmospheric ...

An innovative approach for fully reusable spacecraft suggests making them "sweat" to survive the scorching heat during ...

Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...

Like the probe itself, Psyche's propulsion system is blazing new trails. This is the first time, the mission team says, that this specific mechanism of zipping through space has been used on a ...

On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

An illustration of the Psyche spacecraft and its asteroid. NASA The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to ...

NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has hit a snag on its journey. As reported in a NASA blog post from April 29, 2025, the spacecraft has encountered ...

Traditional spacecraft rely on heat shields that burn away completely or ceramic tiles that may need replacement between flights. Modern spacecraft like SpaceX's Starship demonstrate a higher degree ...