NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in ...

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

(MENAFN) NASA has revised its projections for asteroid 2024 YR4, now indicating a higher probability of a lunar impact in 2032—though Earth remains safe from any threat. Initially, the asteroid ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will livestream ... found in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

And plenty of people will be happy after scientists revealed earlier this year that a 130-300ft asteroid had a small chance of striking Earth just before Christmas of 2032. The impact probability ...

While most asteroids reside in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, some follow paths that bring them alarmingly close to Earth. The idea of an asteroid impact can be daunting, but ...

Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the asteroid belt by ... one of the project’s founders ...

The Kirkwood gaps are explained by asteroids similarly interacting with Jupiter to leave the asteroid belt, even while their average distance from the sun does not change. By dipping into the ...

Interestingly, asteroid (20) Massalia, the parent of this family, is also an H chondrite type. Meteorites with less iron—called L and LL chondrites—mostly come from the inner asteroid belt.