Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the ...

HERE'S HOW YOU CAN SEE IT The spacecraft has valued experience as it successfully observed the tiny main belt ... which uses the asteroid’s apparent position against the star background to ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid ... spotted the asteroid moving against a background of stars.

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our solar system. A team of researchers at Kyoto ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently obtained its first clear images of the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, which is now within its line of sight. Lucy captured these images while it was 45 ...