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 ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The mission’s flyby was used as a gravity assist to its final destination at the binary asteroid system Dimorphos ... s temperature as well as particle size, porosity, and roughness.

On 12 March 2025, the Hera spacecraft used Mars's gravity to accelerate its journey to the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroid system. The probe's camera system, developed and built in Germany, captured ...

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 ...