“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

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

This 150-million-year old space rock may look like a badly-shaped potato but studying it could help scientists understand how ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft made a successful flyby of the second asteroid on its must-see list over the weekend, and sent back ...

A NASA spacecraft will make a close approach to an asteroid in the main belt on Sunday afternoon, in the second of several ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

NASAs Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a close flyby of asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson, located in the main ...

Solar Wave Squeezed ... common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.