Astronomers have long been fascinated by the mysteries of space, but one asteroid in particular has captured the imagination ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A NASA JPL mission launched Friday, marking a space exploration milestone: the Psyche mission is the first time the space agency has sent a probe to a world primarily made of metal, rather than rocks ...

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 ...

French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible. Since then, scientists have long acknowledged ...

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 ...