A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

This September, the agency is scheduled to launch a robotic spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, which will fly to within a few miles of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, map it for several months and then ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock.

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

All eyes are on NASA's asteroid-studying Lucy spacecraft ... Launched in 2021, Lucy is on a 12-year journey to the orbit of Jupiter, during which the probe will perform flybys of eight Trojan ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes ... will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting Earth from any large asteroids discovered coming our way.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes ... will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow ...

EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary ...