"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to reach flight controllers ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

a main asteroid belt object, Lucy successfully made the second flyby of its mission, visiting Donaldjohanson on Sunday. This second encounter enabled Lucy's team to run a full test of its ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Donaldjohanson, collecting data and images of the second of its 11 ...

Lucy will now spend most of the rest of 2025 hurtling through the solar system’s main asteroid belt as it closes in on its main target–the Jupiter Trojan asteroid Eurybates. The spacecraft’s ...

of the harmless asteroid known as Donaldjohanson on Sunday in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's named for the paleontologist who discovered the fossil Lucy 50 years ago in ...