NASA's Psyche spacecraft has snapped a new set of Mars photos.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft swept within 2,864 miles of Mars on May 15, 2026, grabbing a roughly 1,000-mph speed boost that bent its flight path about one degree closer to the plane of its target, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off carrying a NASA spacecraft to investigate the Psyche asteroid from the Kennedy ...

Right now, a spacecraft named Psyche is headed to its namesake asteroid, 16 Psyche. The theory is that 16 Psyche, which lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may be made of precious ...

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 ...

The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it will study, recently performed a flyby of Mars to take advantage of its gravitational pull and continue its trajectory ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has captured a rather mesmerizing time-lapse video of Mars during its recent high-speed gravity assist flyby, offering a different view of the Red Planet’s craters, vast ...

Psyche captured 14 images on its way to Mars, which were stitched together to make this breathtaking eye-like image. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU A common road trip activity is stopping at a roadside ...

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LOS ANGELES, May 14 (Reuters) - NASA's Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter with Mars on Friday and a planned gravity boost to set the spacecraft on its final course to the solar system's ...

The probe used the planet’s gravity to pick up speed and tilt its trajectory on its journey to a metal-rich asteroid, but NASA also took the opportunity to grab photos of Mars’ surface. The images, ...