NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, part of an ambitious mission to explore the outer solar system, has successfully captured its first images of the asteroid Donaldjohanson. This marks an important step in the ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Astronomers can also use ground-based observatories, like the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (the third member of NASA's Deep Space Network), to capture images of asteroids as they pass ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target ... in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images) Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) “NEOs greater than 140 meters ... While NASA has made progress in tracking the largest asteroids, “There is still some chance that large comets from the outer ...

Some scientists believe they were once asteroids that were captured in the gravity of Mars, while others think they could ...