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 will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set for a high-velocity encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday, April 20, marking a ...

“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field.

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system ... said the asteroid may resemble a bowling pin or even a snowman like Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles (223 million kilometers) from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars ... precede and follow the solar system’s largest planet as it circles ...