Astronomers continue to puzzle over asteroid 16 Psyche's formation even though it was discovered over 200 years ago. LPL doctoral candidate Namya Baijal and team have outlined predictions designed to help scientists interpret the collected data from NASA's Psyche mission when it arrives in 2029. Coupled with spacecraft observations, the predictions may help settle the mystery of Psyche's makeup once and for all. 

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier observations from Earth-based instruments had indicated.