At roughly 12,333 miles per hour, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will skim about 2,800 miles above the Martian surface on Friday, May 15, 2026, threading a gravitational needle that mission planners have ...

Nasa's Psyche spacecraft is days away from one of the most dramatic moments of its three-year journey through the solar system. On Friday, May 15, the probe will skim just 4,500 kilometres above the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft will get a boost from Mars on Friday, May 15, passing just 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometers) from the planet's surface at some 12,333 mph (19,848 kph). The spacecraft will ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft will fly close to Mars on Friday in a crucial manoeuvre that could bring scientists closer to understanding the birth of Earth. The flyby will use Mars's gravity to send the ...

This image provided by the NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU from the Psyche mission spacecraft shows Mars on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU via AP A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft will perform a flyby of Mars to get a gravity assist. The maneuver will act like a slingshot, boosting the spacecraft's speed for its journey. Psyche is on a six-year mission ...

The Mandalorian & Grogu arrived at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on May 14, 2026 — the night before NASA's Psyche spacecraft executed a gravity-assist flyby of Mars using a xenon-fueled ion ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid swings past Mars this week for a gravity boost, snapping thousands of pictures as practice for the main encounter in 2029.