For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby. NASA released the images on Monday, a day ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird.

JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited the asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson on Sunday, April 20, coming within 600 miles (920 kilometers) of the object located in the inner region of the asteroid belt ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

The asteroid 2024 YR4 shifted its course from Earth but brought fresh dangers to the Moon. Astronomers have tracked this space rock, which scientists first discovered in late December 2024. Research ...