"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured images of the asteroid with two cameras ... had a 1.3% chance of hitting Earth. The percentage fluctuated over the next few months, reaching as high ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its ... upcoming impact from this object in the next 10 years. But an asteroid passing closing ...

On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly ...

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

On April 20, the probe’s Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) traveled within about 600 miles of the elongated asteroid while snapping images at roughly two-second intervals.

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest ... 2025 Data returned over the next week should help clarify the asteroid's shape, according to NASA. Lucy passed within 600 ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

An asteroid passing by Earth. Research suggests there may be a hidden population of lunar fragments traveling near Earth. | Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Earth's minimoon ...