Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...
Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
NASA/ Johns Hopkins APL After analysing data from Nasa’s Dart mission, scientists concluded that it had successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit (Credit: NASA/ Johns Hopkins APL) When it ...
A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...
The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...