NASA set to journey to a metal-rich asteroid

Scientists think Psyche, named after the goddess of the soul in Greek mythology, could be part of the iron-rich core of a "planetesimal," a building block of all rocky planets.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft sits on launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 11, 2023. (AFP)