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

The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past ...

An asteroid, 2024 YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagged a small possibility of Earth impact, but refined ...

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Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth, ending the reign of the dinosaurs. For nearly three decades, scientists have debated whether dinosaur species were actually ...

NASA's latest asteroid warning is about a space rock named 2023 KU that is hurtling towards Earth at a speed of 64,000 kilometres per hour. The 370-foot asteroid belongs to the Apollo group of ...

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 ...

Credit: Davide Bonadonna Scientists have debated a tantalizing question for decades: Were dinosaurs already on the decline before the catastrophic asteroid impact 66 million years ago? At first glance ...

In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared ...