NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon travel by asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed roughly 150 million years ago.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

These five locales allow for stable orbits due to the competing gravitational forces of Earth and the sun. This one lives at what is called the L4 point. The only other Trojan asteroid seen around ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

In the next few years, the space agency hopes to launch an infrared space telescope devoted to asteroid detection. Asteroids fly by Earth on a regular basis, and most of them are of no concern ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

As more observations of the asteroid are made, the uncertainty region will continue to shrink and the impact probability may continue to rise. If we reach a point at which Earth is no longer ...