NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

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

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... NASA’s Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles (223 million kilometers) from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and ... NASA’s Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles (960 kilometers ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter, a region not known to produce Earth-crossing asteroids, according to a ...

The team behind the study also compared the newly discovered asteroid’s orbit with that of near-Earth objects, and found that 2024 YR4 likely originated between the inner and central main belt.

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely ... They orbit the sun and are mostly found in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, but some orbit closer to Earth. When viewed from ...