How does the concept of the psyche relate to scientific psychology? This post describes a new way of framing these two concepts. If we trace the origin of the word psychology, we find its root in the ...

NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the ...

The asteroid's absurd "value" could foreshadow future contributions to the budding space mining industry. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

A NASA JPL mission launched Friday, marking a space exploration milestone: the Psyche mission is the first time the space agency has sent a probe to a world primarily made of metal, rather than rocks ...

The probe launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, beginning a six-year journey to one of the most enigmatic worlds in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. By Kenneth Chang and Becky Ferreira ...

In Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (streaming now on Peacock!) a lot of drama gets stirred up over a tiny piece of space rock (and the alien who shows up to claim it) when there are much more valuable ...