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

For years, we thought a giant comet object smacked into Earth 66 million years ago, signing the collective death certificate ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

The Lucy spacecraft launched by NASA in 2021 is set to swoop past a small asteroid called Donaldjohanson near Jupiter.

The asteroid is now the smallest object ever observed by Webb – an advanced telescope launched in 2021 outfitted with a gold-coated mirror and powerful infrared instruments. Weeks after Webb glimpsed ...

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

A team of astronomers has determined the shape of asteroid 2024 YR4, which could hit the moon. | Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting Earth from any large asteroids discovered coming our way.

A groundbreaking study on dinosaur populations leading up to their extinction points to sampling biases within the fossil ...

This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth. Astronomers created a 3D image of the newly discovered asteroid after observing it with a telescope in Chile. (9NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.

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 ...

The asteroid is now the smallest object ever observed by Webb – an advanced telescope launched in 2021 outfitted with a gold-coated mirror and powerful infrared instruments. Weeks after Webb ...