NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of discovery." ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth ...

Even if that happens, NASA assures the moon's orbit will not be altered. The asteroid —- which swings our way every four years — will be too far away by next week for ground telescopes to see.

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most of them are found in the main asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

In space terms, that’s quite close. After further tracking, scientists found that the asteroid was unlikely to hit Earth. By January 2025, they refined its orbit and almost completely ruled out a ...

By January 2025, the asteroid’s orbit had been refined, and the possibility of an Earth impact was nearly ruled out. Still, a small chance remained that it could strike the Moon instead.

The asteroid designated 2024 YR4 has garnered significant attention from researchers, particularly due to its unique shape and the unexpected region from which it originates. Although concerns about ...

the team determined that 2024 YR4 most likely originated from the main asteroid belt. They also predicted a high probability of being perturbed into its current near-Earth orbit by gravitational ...