The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the sun, will skim Earth's ...

An unusual approach to spotting tiny asteroids uses James Webb Space Telescope data in a boost for planetary defense research ...

An asteroid is a small, inactive body that orbits the sun, typically composed of rocky, dusty and metallic materials. They ...

The #LucyMission will perform its 2nd Earth-gravity assist on Dec. 12, putting it on a new course toward its first Trojan ...

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt," ...

The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...

A "harmless" asteroid burned up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky ...

MIT astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, “decameter,” asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their ...

The Main Asteroid Belt's smallest ever asteroids have been detected, as discovered in a new study. The belt is located ...