NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Donaldjohanson, collecting data and images of the second of its 11 ...

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 ...

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

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

In September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted the asteroid Dimorphos. The collision changed Dimorphos's orbit successfully, and now scientists hope to study the ...

Determining its size was key to updating the asteroid's protected orbit in relation to Earth. While chances of an Earth impact have dropped significantly, the possibility of a Moon hit has doubled ...

2024 YR4 and other near-Earth asteroids are studied by NASA’s planetary defense program and the international community of astronomers, orbit calculators, and impact physicists, among other scientists ...

PARIS — A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4-percent chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The asteroid, ...

If the asteroid were to collide with the lunar surface, scientists say it would likely create a visible crater, though it wouldn’t affect the Moon’s orbit or Earth’s safety. Initially ...

The space agency now believe there's virtually zero chance of an Earth collision occurring and says in the slim chance the asteroid did hit the moon it would not impact its orbit. Asteroids are ...

Even with this small increase in the chance of a collision with the Moon, it is not big enough to alter the Moon's orbit, they said. So, where did this asteroid come from in the first place?