NASA’s Lucy mission made a close flyby of the Dinkinesh asteroid on November 1, capturing data about the rocky object in the main asteroid belt. As it turns out, this small little guy was hiding ...

That’s because the tiny moon is orbiting too close to its parent asteroid. Further, they say that if Lucy had not been watching Polymele when it crossed in front of the star, we probably wouldn ...

These Jovian Trojans are considered so scientifically important that the NASA mission Lucy will visit the Greek camp in ...

The NASA spacecraft Lucy will visit eight of them between 2027 ... After a telescope image in Hawaii captured the new asteroid in 2019, an amateur astronomer in Australia, Andrew Walker, suggested ...

The MBR Explorer spacecraft is at least superficially similar in design to NASA's Lucy asteroid mission. It will fly by six asteroids in the main belt before arriving at a seventh in 2034.

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

"There may still be water out there to be found." On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows of saltwater ...

Your support makes all the difference. A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124 ...

A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) set to make a close approach to Earth in five years’ time.

I was ten years old back then, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Just moments before an asteroid the size of Texas careened into the planet, killing everyone and everything on it ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

These Jovian Trojans are considered so scientifically important that the NASA mission Lucy will visit the Greek camp in August 2027 when it performs a flyby of the asteroid Eurybates and its ...