The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

Science & Tech Trending news Asteroid Donaldjohanson has intrigued scientists because it is thought to be the debris of a ...

China is set to launch the Tianwen-2 mission this year, aiming to unravel the mysteries of a "living fossil" of the solar system and one "rebel" of the main asteroid belt.

And is there really a need to be concerned? Asteroids are left over remnants from the formation of the solar system, mostly ...

YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled out any chance of it hitting Earth in 2068. It’s way too soon to fret over ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...