Psyche

Space

NASA gives go-ahead for mission to explore ancient planet core in asteroid belt

NASA has given its approval to begin construction of a spacecraft that will one day explore the metallic asteroid Psyche, which may represent the exposed metallic core of what was once a Mars-sized planet.
Space

NASA's Psyche and Lucy to visit metal and Trojan asteroids

In September 2015, NASA chose five potential space exploration missions to fund. Now the space agency has narrowed the field down to two missions that will see robotic spacecraft probing parts of our Solar System that could give us deeper insights into its formation and evolution.