The first images of Lucy's next target show a tiny asteroid moving against a starry background. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) has completed reviewing the Critical Design phase of the mission. A key milestone in the programme’s timeline, this review aims to discuss the details ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a flyby of a three-mile-wide asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, sending back a video composed of 37 images. Called (52246) Donaldjohanson, it’s the ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past ...

China envisions exploring the solar system, and it seems that would happen soon. The country launched Tianwen-2, an innovative space probe tasked with retrieving samples from an uncharted asteroid and ...

In this Q&A, His Excellency Eng. Salem Butti Salem Al Qubaisi discusses the UAE's ambitious space journey from Earth observation to deep space exploration through the Emirates Mars Mission and ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Asteroid 2024 YR4, until recently thought to have a chance ...