Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.

Despite a few months topping the hit list of the most dangerous asteroids, it is now certain that 2024 YR4 won’t hit our ...

the exploration of multiple Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the sun. Lucy's first asteroid encounter—a flyby of the tiny main belt asteroid Dinkinesh and its satellite ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed for a potential collision with the Moon likely originated in the asteroid belt near Jupiter, a region not known to produce Earth-crossing asteroids ...