Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made the Earth and our environment what it is." BOULDER, Colorado ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

The asteroid Vesta could be a huge chunk of planet that was blasted off its parent world and sent spinning into space in the aftermath of a titanic collision four-and-a-half billion years ago.

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a distance of 6.8 million kilometres, it's a close call in cosmic terms ...

This file photo shows Ryugu asteroid taken by Hayabusa2 space probe in November 2019. (Photo courtesy of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's space agency is hoping ...

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, a scenario that experts postulated could have more explosive potential ...

As a lone engineer find, extract, move and utilize the abundant resources of a massive asteroid to build for humanity's future. Craft basic tools and equipment from rocks and ice, and advance ...