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$10,000 Quadrillion Worth of Gold Is Orbiting Earth, Here’s Where It Is

In October 2023, NASA launched a mission toward 16 Psyche, a massive gold and metal-rich asteroid orbiting between Mars and ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Psyche Mission Suffers Strange Glitch on Its Way to a Metallic Asteroid

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to understand the origins of Earth. Although it’s still a few years ...
Futurism

NASA Spacecraft Runs Into Thruster Trouble En Route to Zillion-Dollar Asteroid

NASA's Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid — worth, according to some estimates, more than the Earth's entire world economy — has hit a snag. On Tuesday, the space agency announced that ...
Ars Technica

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid, but now it’s running in backup mode

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unexplored metal-rich asteroid has reignited its plasma thrusters, continuing its cruise deeper into the Solar System after switching to a backup fuel line. The $1.4 ...

Asteroid Mining, a Gold Rush in Space

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...
Space.com on MSN

Earth's next 'mini-moon' could create a gold rush for asteroid miners

Chandra Mouli Nagamallaiah, 50, was beheaded by an edged weapon at a motel in Dallas on Wednesday after an argument with his co-worker, police say. Cuban national Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, has been ...