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 small ...

Planetary scientists have recently drawn a connection between the birth of Jupiter and the formation zone of Earth, suggesting a shared origin in the early solar system. This revelation not only ...

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 ...

The first images of Lucy's next target show a tiny asteroid moving against a starry background. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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 out near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

NASA has been observing bodies in space for a long time and compiled lists of behavioral patterns and discovered an asteroid ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...