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 ...

Read full article: Jaguars trade up to No. 2 overall pick; draft 2024 Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter NASA launched a spacecraft Friday that is headed to an asteroid called Psyche. This ...

It was part of the technology demonstration known as Deep Space Optical Communications, which is attached to the Psyche spacecraft traveling to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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.

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.