16 Psyche: The $10 Quintillion Asteroid That Could Dwarf Global Economy – NASA Mission Revealed Discover the mind-blowing story of 16 Psyche, a 220 km-wide asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, packed with iron, nickel, and gold worth an estimated $10 quintillion – that's 70,000 times the global economy! Could $1.2 billion from this cosmic vault change everything? NASA's Psyche spacecraft, launched in 2023, is racing toward it, arriving in 2029 to uncover if it's a shattered planet's core.

The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, observed by NASA's Lucy spacecraft in April 2025. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/lucy/ | NASA Solar System Exploration