NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has delivered its most striking discovery yet: a close-range view of a bizarrely shaped asteroid that ...

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

A hydrothermal system near the coast of Mexico, caused by the same asteroid event that killed the dinosaurs, lasted 700,000 ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

The asteroid was spotted during Lucy’s latest close encounter. The spacecraft flew just 960 kilometres above its surface on ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

About exactly four years from now, the asteroid Apophis will swing past Earth on April 13, 2029. This space rock, measuring ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.