"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...
Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?
Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...
The review yielded positive results, reflecting remarkable progress in the national team’s capabilities, and reinforcing the preparations for the mission launch ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European ...
Latest updates related to development of MBR Explorer in focus The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA)'s critical design phase review was done by a group of Emirati and international experts.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently obtained its first clear images of the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, which is now within its line of sight. Lucy captured these images while it was 45 ...