This comes after Nicola Fox of NASA's science mission directorate said: "Psyche is by far the largest [asteroid], and that's ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The space agency released the images ...

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...

Next, Tianwen 2 will fly back to Earth's orbit and release its reentry module, which will return to the ground with the ...

“Asteroid Donaldjohanson has strikingly complicated ... spectra that could yield clues to Donaldjohanson’s surface composition, particle size, and level of radiation. The Lucy mission will ...