The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

NASA and SpaceX are teaming up for one of the boldest missions in space history - sending humans to an asteroid. From testing ...

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 ...

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

N ASA’s Lucy spacecraft has encountered its second official asteroid, and once again, the object has defied expectations. The ...

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

On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

Explore the fascinating possibility of our moon giving birth to an asteroid! 🌙✨ Dive into the cosmic wonders and uncover the ...

NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

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

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...