Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

NASA's Lucy mission is key to helping us understand the early history of our solar system as it studies asteroids like the Donaldjohanson. Named after the paleoanthropologist who co-discovered the ...

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 ...

The asteroid is currently located in the constellation of Lynx, at a distance of more than 1.9 million miles (3.2 million ...

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

The Donaldjohanson asteroid imaged by NASA's Lucy spacecraft. NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson ...

Space is bustling with rocks and dust, and occasionally, larger asteroids capture public attention. One such asteroid, 2023 ...

When the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science lemonade. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The asteroid 2024 ...

Those of us prone to believing in the inevitability of apocalyptic disasters have been a little perturbed by recent claims that NASA is on alert over an asteroid that will fly past Earth on Friday.