The asteroid Dinkinesh and the tiny moon orbiting it was discovered by Lucy during a 2023 flyby. AP Lucy is expected to encounter 11 asteroids in total during its journey, then spend the rest of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is back in the spotlight. Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 percent chance of hitting the Moon. Now a different group ...

An asteroid floating in our solar system has been discovered to have a very weird and unique double moon—and it might just change the way we think about how planets form. The asteroid ...

By studying Earth-like orbiting objects with moon-like spectral signatures, scientists could determine what proportion come from the moon versus the asteroid belt, potentially improving our ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 30 and 65 metres wide. Meanwhile, the chances of it hitting the Moon have increased. It was recently revealed that it had more than doubled, from 1.7 to 3.8 per ...

Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals ... having to land on the surface. Although the moon and the asteroid Vesta are very different, two NASA studies ...

Related: 'City-killer' asteroid that might hit moon has 'unexpected' shape, astronomers say The Lucy mission launched in 2021 and is on its way to study ancient asteroids orbiting the sun in the ...

An huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly four percent chance of smashing into the Moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The asteroid ...

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid set to smash into the Moon. Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin.

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 ...