Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

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.

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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) ...