The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

NASA has captured images of two asteroids that made a close pass around Earth last week. The space agency used the Goldstone Solar System Radar in California to transmit radio waves to the ...

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 ...

The unexpected 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Observatory left NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar as the new heavy hitter when ...

The images were posted by the European Space Agency ... that this asteroid does not share properties observed in larger asteroids," the European Space Agency said in its post.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The photos depict an elongated asteroid that likely ... Donaldjohanson is the second of 10 asteroids scheduled to be studied on Lucy’s 12-year-long mission. “The potential to really open ...

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 ...

The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close ... launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter. Eight Trojan flybys are planned through ...