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 ...

In the asteroid belt, the dodo isn’t extinct, Elvis isn’t dead, and James Bond is real. Mother Teresa is there, too, along with Jesse Owens, Beethoven, a bunch of astronomers’ kids and the ...

What’s Next: A 3D Look at the Asteroid Belt. The team has already secured a legacy-class archival program with JWST, intending to apply the same shift-and-stack method across all large datasets from ...

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 ...

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 ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, thanks to a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. Known as ...

Centaurs are real. ... Most asteroids are found in the asteroid belt–a ring between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter. They also come in various shapes and sizes and some have a satellite orbiting.

But even a tiny asteroid can cause real damage—the famous Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013 was a small decameter asteroid. These events can send “shockwaves through entire ...