NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a pivotal encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Capturing high-resolution images ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an asteroid with a 1%–2% chance of a fatal collision occurring in 2032. While ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid ... real extraterrestrial organic ... planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt.

The 950 ft asteroid 2002 JX8 will make a close pass to Earth on May 9, and stargazers can watch it unfold in real time via ... The main belt asteroid 612356 2002 JX8 is estimated to ...

NASA is retiring its only dedicated asteroid-hunting space telescope, ending a 10-year mission that initially began as something else entirely: an astrophysics surveyor meant to open scientists ...

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...