Author name: M.L. Pedrosa

A jagged, irregularly shaped asteroid rendered in deep iron-grey and bronze tones, pocked with craters, suspended in deep space. The surface glows with a faint metallic sheen lit by a distant sun. In the background, a spacecraft trails faint blue xenon ion-drive light as it curves away from a ruddy Mars.
Space & Physics

The Metal World

On 15 May 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft skims Mars at 12,333 mph to steal its gravity. Destination: an iron asteroid that may be a dead planet’s exposed core.

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