NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

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

“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

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

NASA officials believe that studying such space rocks in the main asteroid belt will lend an understanding of how the planets of our solar system formed. It's also helpful to think of the flybys ...

It orbits the sun in the solar system’s Main Asteroid Belt. The aim of Lucy’s flyby ... fossils from the formation and evolution of the planets and the solar system. The asteroid ...