near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022. 16 Psyche is a rare metal asteroid possibly comprised of iron, nickel and gold, but that’s based only on observations of its ...

However, on NASA’s launch schedule is the Psyche mission to uncover a metal-rich asteroid of the same name. Originally scheduled to launch in September 2022, Psyche was scrubbed last year after ...

The craft is heading to a metal world - an asteroid called 16 Psyche - which telescopic observations suggest is made from up to 60% iron and nickel. Scientists think it may be the remnant core of ...

An asteroid about the size of a refrigerator was ... The M-types (metallic) are reddish and have higher concentrations of metal such as nickel-iron. Meteorites are tiny bits of asteroids that ...

The space agency has predicted that the asteroid is made up of 30-60% metal and spans a surface area of approximately 64,000 square miles. If 16 Psyche does turn out to be worth £8 quintillion ...