On May 15, 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft screamed past Mars at 12,333 mph, sweeping within 2,864 miles of the planet’s ...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 ...
Its target asteroid could give us insight on how Earth's core came to be.