The moment marked the first successful test of NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) system, a next-generation comms link that sends information not by radio waves but instead by laser light ...

A celestial visitor from beyond our solar system has become the unwitting protagonist in a global test of humanity's ability ...

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Psyche is gently gliding to its target asteroid by expelling ionized xenon. Psyche is gently gliding to its target asteroid by expelling ionized xenon. is a former weekend editor who covered tech and ...

NASA has announced a new mission to a metal-rich asteroid called 16 Psyche. The metals that 16 Psyche is thought to contain would be worth $100 quintillion on Earth. But NASA isn't going to mine the ...

An innovative experiment flying aboard NASA's Psyche mission just hit its first major milestone by successfully carrying out the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could ...

​Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is in the news again after NASA shared a new picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescopeon ...

NASA launched a new deep space probe from Florida today sending its Psyche spacecraft 2.2 billion miles from Earth toward one of only nine known metal-rich asteroids. It’s the 14th planetary ...

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This mosaic was made from "first light" images acquired by both of the cameras on NASA's Psyche spacecraft on Dec. 4, 2023. The field of view of this mosaic is about 8 degrees wide by 3.5 degrees tall ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft has reached another milestone after it captured its "first light" images following its successful departure on Earth on October 13. Currently positioned 16 million miles away ...