NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby. NASA released the images on Monday, a day ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

About exactly four years from now, the asteroid Apophis will swing past Earth on April 13, 2029. This space rock, measuring ...

With improved detection capabilities, more small near-Earth objects are likely to be discovered. The study of YR4 serves as a precedent for rapid telescope deployment and analysis in future cases of ...

an asteroid feared to strike Earth in 2029. Next came the "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4, which gave researchers sleepless nights for days after it was revealed that it was on a collision course with ...

A large asteroid is racing towards Earth ... The effect of a 2023 KU collision with Earth would be huge. It would explode as much as many nuclear bombs, according to experts.

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South ...

In space terms, that’s quite close. After further tracking, scientists found that the asteroid was unlikely to hit Earth. By January 2025, they refined its orbit and almost completely ruled out a ...