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The US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has activated the world's most potent X-ray laser.

NASA's Psyche mission is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Oct. 5 and begin heading toward its metal-asteroid namesake.

NASA is sharing new details about a planned mission to study a distant asteroid.

The spacecraft will travel about 2.2 billion miles via solar-electric propulsion before reaching its namesake destination, Psyche, in July 2029.

The International Space Station is getting the next piece for NASA's laser comms. For the longest time, space-to-Earth communications have focused on radio-based systems to communicate to the home base and bring information from its findings, but that is soon to change with NASA's upcoming lasers.

NASA plans on testing an innovative new way to communicate with deep space probes, and step one depends on the success of the Psyche mission.

With the completion of a comprehensive flight software test campaign, NASA engineers are "counting down the days" as the metal-rich-asteroid-bound Psyche probe nears its October launch date.

NASA's first mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche, which was scheduled to launch in 2022, will be delayed, according to the agency’s announcement made on Friday.

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere mapped the surface properties of the asteroid Psyche, revealing a landscape of metal and rock.

Across this region, which is, of course, very much unseasonably cold. youll notice it does moderate out just a little bit and dry weather into 2022. but still looks to remain average. looking to new years eve, trouble spots around the four corners region, tennessee valley, thats where a few showers are possible. beyond that, not a bad set up. new york city 51 degrees around midnight. cloudy conditions and winds going to be general on the light side. temperatures pretty impressive. in houston, up...