The space agency's Psyche spacecraft will be the first ever to attempt to directly visit a metal asteroid.
Prof Jim Bell takes a look at the first ever spacecraft to journey to a metallic asteroid and what it could teach us.
Neurophysiologist Par Halje looks at how research into psychedelics could help us understand consciousness.
An asteroid with enough riches to make everyone on Earth a billionaire is the subject of a new Hubble study.
The iron-rich asteroid 16 Psyche is so valuable that, if mined, it would collapse the global economy.
Known as Lucy and Psyche, the new spacecraft will be studying two relics of the early solar system.