This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the ... practice for when a potentially killer asteroid heads our way. The Associated Press Health and Science ...

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

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the ... practice for when a potentially killer asteroid heads our way. On the latest episode of "Sarra Sounds ...

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

New Observations Show the Asteroid That Won't Hit Earth Resembles a Spinning Hockey ... practice for when a potentially killer asteroid heads our way. The Associated Press Health and Science ...