The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

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

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

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of discovery." ...

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

By January 2025, they refined its orbit and almost completely ruled out a collision with our planet by zero per cent. But the asteroid could still strike the Moon, which does not have an atmosphere to ...

The team determined that the unusually-shaped rock is one of the largest objects in recent history that could impact the Moon, and that it likely originated from the main asteroid belt.

open image in gallery Artist’s illustration of asteroid 2024 YR4 as it flies by the Earth and heads toward potential impact with the Moon (NOIRLab ... likely pushed into its current near-Earth ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is back in the spotlight. Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 percent chance of hitting the Moon. Now a different group ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated ... in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The building-sized rock was likely ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon ... s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The building-sized rock was likely pushed into its current near ...