The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

Consider the dramatic visual and gravitational consequences if a large asteroid struck and fractured the Moon.

It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set for a high-velocity encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday, April 20, marking a ...

An asteroid that was once expected to hit Earth is now being closely monitored for a potential collision with the Moon. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, received much attention after NASA claimed it ...

For months, astronomers were concerned that a newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4 ... (JWST), we now know Earth is in the clear. The Moon, however, might still be in its path.

However, when a smaller rock comes in the periphery of a larger one, it gets pulled by the bigger one and becomes its moon. In 2013, scientists observed that an asteroid could also have rings, which ...

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, April 17, 2025, the moon is 19 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar ...