On May 15, 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft tore past Mars at roughly 12,333 mph, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet’s surface in a precisely choreographed gravity assist that bent its trajectory toward one of the most intriguing objects in the solar system: a metal-rich asteroid that may be the exposed core of a world

NASA’s Perseverance rover is living up to its name as its total distance traveled approaches the length of a marathon. Over the past five years, this intrepid explorer has traversed more than 26.05 miles (41.