The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

An unusual approach to spotting tiny asteroids uses James Webb Space Telescope data in a boost for planetary defense research ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking three asteroids. These celestial visitors will safely pass Earth on December 12, ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...

A 210-foot asteroid will zoom past Earth on December 13, 2024. It will travel at 41,421 km/h. The asteroid will come within 6 ...

Astronomers at MIT have detected the smallest asteroids ever, measuring just 10 metres across, using data from NASA's James ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring three asteroids set to pass Earth on December 11, 2024. Though moving at ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the sun, will skim Earth's ...

The rocky bodies, which look like asteroids but act like comets, could comprise up to 60% of near-Earth objects.

The cosmic display – famed for its strong, bright and consistent fireballs – is reaching its peak activity for the year ...