NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut.

Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field.

The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

Next, Tianwen 2 will fly back to Earth's orbit and release its reentry module, which will return to the ground with the ...

The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system when planets were ... from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it will ...

It orbits the sun in the solar system’s Main Asteroid Belt. The aim of Lucy’s flyby was to test the spacecraft and make sure its scientists are well prepared for the mission’s main target ...

The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system when planets were ... million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far ...