The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width. Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following the ...

Graphic made in Canva Pro by Daisy Dobrijevic An asteroid will make a close pass of Earth this weekend and you can watch it live online. The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will sweep briefly across ...

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Knowing where meteorites come from before hitting Earth can also reveal where potentially hazardous Near Earth Asteroids may ...

Scientists have discovered further details on the colossal mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs using a new map ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

A team of astronomers has determined the shape of asteroid 2024 YR4 ... 174 to 220 feet (53 to 67 meters), Live Science previously reported. 2024 YR4 is one of the largest objects in recent ...