The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of a pyramid will skim past Earth tomorrow, NASA has revealed. The asteroid, called 2014 TN17, is expected to come as close as 0.03404 astronomical ...

How old is asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson (DJ), which is about to be studied by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft in an upcoming flyby on April 20 ... based telescopes and instruments to analyze the size, shape ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares ... distance between the Earth and the moon. This flyby is part of a series of five near-Earth approaches ...

Hera is set to reach its asteroid target in 2026, but the space probe got to dust off its science tools for the first time during its Mars flyby on Wednesday. The spacecraft came as close as 3,106 ...

To read the paper “A pre-flyby view on the origin of asteroid Donaldjohanson, a target of the NASA Lucy mission,” published in the Planetary Science Journal, see: DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/adb4f4.

The spacecraft is gearing up for a close flyby of Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. As reported by Gizmodo, Lucy will pass within 596 miles (960 kilometers) of the asteroid during this encounter.

During next month's flyby, Lucy will collect data on the asteroid's shape, surface geology and cratering history. The data Lucy will gather from Donaldjohanson is especially important because that ...

Languages: English and Italian. NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid dashing past Earth today at a speed of 38,922 miles per hour. The space rock, known as 2025 DU2, is estimated to be ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday. By Robin George Andrews Robin George Andrews wrote ...