Startling new images have surfaced, depicting a 'city killer' asteroid with a chilling 1-in ... past by Chile's Gemini South Telescope, these photos shed light on the enigmatic boulder, spanning ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has got a new target in its sights. New photos have emerged of a small asteroid named Donaldjohanson. Images show the perceived motion of the asteroid. The Lucy spacecraft ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth. “Only a few asteroids have been studied like this,” Bryce Bolin, a NASA astronomer involved in the photo ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

This asteroid is certainly worth watching because ... Photograph by NASA/Science Photo Library Asteroids often rotate, with their sunward side getting warmed up before spinning out of view.

The striking new images of asteroid YR4 2024 were captured by a ... Bryce Bolin, a NASA astronomer involved in the photo operation, told Space.com: "Only a few asteroids have been studied like ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.