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

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...

Now a different group has looked at its orbital past, suggesting a likely place of origin: the middle of the main asteroid ...

A NASA spacecraft will make a close approach to an asteroid in the main belt on Sunday afternoon, in the second of several ...

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

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have uncovered new insights about 2024 YR4. This is an Earth-crossing ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set for a high-velocity encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday, April 20, marking a ...

The space rock was first detected in December and was initially considered to have a chance of striking Earth in 2032.

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

An asteroid that could be the size of a 10-storey building will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon have doubled. Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of ...