New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

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 ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

More information: Simone Marchi et al, A Pre-flyby View on the Origin of Asteroid Donaldjohanson, a Target of the NASA Lucy Mission, The Planetary Science Journal (2025). 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 ...

It follows NASA’s 2022 DART mission, which successfully altered the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos ... and just 300 km from its city-sized moon Deimos. This flyby was a great opportunity ...

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.

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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 ...