The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

NASA has detected a mysterious object near Jupiter’s orbit, leaving scientists puzzled. The unknown entity could be a new ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

Astronomers believe Donaldjohanson is a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest 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 ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

A new study reports that this space rock likely hails from the central region of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — a cosmic "suburb" scientists don't typically associate with ...

Astronomers believe Donaldjohanson is a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ever ...

Asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson is named after ... visiting the never-before-explored Trojan asteroids in the Jupiter system. "We are going to have five encounters with Trojans starting in April ...