While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details. Rising out of the remote Mojave Desert, NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar is a ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

These asteroids are remnants of our early solar ... co-discovered the Lucy hominid fossil in northern Ethiopia in 1974. Images of the asteroid Lucy took as it approached the three-mile-wide ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's hurtling through space at around 14,000 miles per hour. Measuring about 42 feet in ...

especially since this first set of images does not capture the full asteroid in a single shot. Lucy was launched in 2021 to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which share the gas giant’s orbit ...

A NASA spacecraft is traveling to the most mysterious asteroids in the solar system. On the way there, it snapped images of the curious, elongated asteroid dubbed "Donaldjohanson." On April 20 ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

The Trojan asteroids are intriguing to astronomers because ... the Jupiter Trojan asteroid named Eurybates in August 2027. “These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous ...

During a House Committee on Space, Science and Technology hearing, experts discussed the state of NASA's planetary defense ...

The spacecraft was launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter. Eight Trojan flybys are planned through 2033. "These early images of Donaldjohanson are ...