For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped peanut. The space agency released the images Monday ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft had its second rendezvous with an asteroid over the weekend, this time with the uniquely named ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft just pulled off its second asteroid flyby and imaged a frankly tasty-looking rock: a peanut-shaped asteroid named Donaldjohanson. The oblong asteroid is a fragment of a ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

The Donaldjohanson asteroid imaged by NASA's Lucy spacecraft. NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is set to fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson, located 139 million miles away in the asteroid belt. This flyby serves as a crucial test for Lucy's upcoming mission to explore ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA. The space rock, called 2024 YR4, was previously given up to a 3.1% chance of ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock.The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close ...