The rare metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche, located between Mars and Jupiter, could potentially make everyone on Earth a billionaire if its precious metals were divided equally.
The asteroid is estimated to contain a core of iron, nickel, and gold worth $10,000 quadrillion.
NASA is planning a mission to explore Psyche to study its composition and history and to determine whether it could be the core of a shattered planetesimal.
Psyche was named after the Greek goddess of the soul and was discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis.