The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Scientists have long questioned whether an early Earth could have contained the appropriate hydrogen and oxygen on its own to ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

New research has revealed why carbonaceous asteroids, some of the most chemically primitive materials in the solar system, ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

Experts from the University of Oxford now think that the rocky material which built our planet had the elements it needed to ...

NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system's most enticing space rocks.