Scientists with NASA's Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft's April 20 encounter with the ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Space enthusiasts are tracking Asteroid 2025 MM. It is airplane-sized. It will safely pass by Earth this week. The asteroid ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 09:27. NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of ...

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

NASA JPL in California tracks asteroid. The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, ... Most asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks. ... the Kuiper Belt object visited by NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft in 2019.

The asteroid 2002 JX8 is large enough for NASA to deem it as "potentially hazardous" space object. ... Most asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.