YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

The Lucy spacecraft that was launched in 2021 has caught the first clear glimpse of Donaldjohanson in the main asteroid belt. NASA has released images of the asteroid that appears like a smidge of ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has got a new target in its sights. New photos have emerged of a small asteroid named Donaldjohanson. The Lucy spacecraft will pass within 596 miles of the 2-mile-wide asteroid ...

New photos have emerged of a small ... successfully observed the tiny main belt asteroid Dinkinesh and its contact binary moon, Selam, in November 2023. NASA says this second asteroid encounter ...

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This asteroid moves at 22,432 km/h, the slowest among the three. Though smaller, it stays under NASA’s watch due to its NEO status. 2023 RW3: Another House-Sized Object The final visitor ...

Despite its smaller size, NASA continues to track it as part of its NEO monitoring program. Asteroid 2023 RW3: Another House-Sized Object The third asteroid, 2023 RW3, is 56 feet in diameter, similar ...

A number of asteroids have come very close to Earth and are threatening to do so in the future, but none in recent times created the kind of panic that Asteroid 2024 YR4 did. The data at first ...

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into ...