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

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby. NASA released the images on Monday, a day ...

“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting Earth from any large asteroids discovered coming our way.

To achieve this, the researcher suggests bombarding it with asteroids from the far reaches of the solar system. Mars is a desert planet, devoid of oxygen, and with an atmosphere so thin that it ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

Three Tucson scientists are featured in "Planetary Defenders," a new NASA documentary that premieres Wednesday about the ...

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...

The robotic trailblazer named Lucy is up first, blasting off this weekend on a 12-year cruise to swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter — unexplored time capsules from the dawn of the solar system.

For decades, scientists believed Earth got its water from asteroids smashing into it billions of years ago. But a shocking new discovery by scientists at the University of Oxford had turned that ...

The event is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. EDT. Watch the live video above.

the same approach applies to asteroids. As Cody Springer of Coding Astrology explains, “Juno retrograde in Scorpio invites us to turn inward and reflect on our patterns of intimacy, trust ...