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Psyche spacecraft bound for asteroid belt to get speed boost from Mars

A NASA spacecraft on a long journey to a strange metallic asteroid will have a close encounter with Mars.

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NASA's Psyche spacecraft to race past Mars in hunt for clues about how Earth was formed

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NASA spacecraft to fly past Mars on voyage to rare metal asteroid

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NASA spacecraft to make close flyby of Mars

A NASA spacecraft will do a flyby of Mars as it heads to a rare metal asteroid.

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NASA spacecraft to fly close to Mars this week as it chases rare metal asteroid

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NASA’s Psyche mission is snapping photos of Mars on its way to an asteroid

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NASA’s Psyche probe passes just 2,800 miles above Mars Friday — using the planet’s gravity to slingshot toward a metal asteroid worth $700 quintillion

At roughly 12,333 mph, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will skim just 2,800 miles above the surface of Mars on Friday, May 16, 2026, threading a gravitational needle that will bend its course toward one of the strangest objects in the solar system: a 140-mile-wide asteroid that appears to be made largely of metal.

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover sends new self-portrait from the red planet

Perseverance captured the composite image using 61 individual snapshots taken by the camera mounted at the end of its robotic arm, according to NASA.