The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in April.
From centaurs to icy moons, our host star is orbited by an array of objects with bizarre features.
The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029.
Scientists rallied to save the mission when the space agency indefinitely delayed its 2027 launch.
The space agency is hosting a workshop for low cost missions to study Apophis despite having two probes in storage that could fit the bill.
The asteroid-sleuthing probe is transitioning from its orbit around the Sun to one beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
The Psyche mission will examine a metal-rich asteroid believed to have once been a planetary building block.
The NASA mission hit the jackpot with its first target, observing the first known contact binary asteroid in orbit.
The NASA mission's first close flyby came with an exciting surprise: Dinkinesh is a binary asteroid featuring not one but two space rocks.
The probe will conduct a close flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh on Wednesday to test its instruments as it steadily makes its way towards Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
The spacecraft is 4.7 million miles away from Dinkinesh, but still has another 16 million miles to travel before their rendezvous.
The Psyche spacecraft launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on Friday at 10:19 a.m. ET, kickstarting a highly-anticipated mission.
The Psyche spacecraft will journey 2.2 billion miles to study a metal-rich asteroid believed to have been a potential building block for a planet.
The asteroid mission was delayed as the team worked to resolve a potential overheating problem.
NASA announced on Thursday that the launch of its Psyche mission has been postponed by a week, now set for October 12 instead of the earlier date of October 5.
Dinkinesh is the first asteroid that the mission will encounter on its way to the Jovian system.
The team behind the Janus mission is trying to find a new use for the spacecraft, which are now sitting in storage.
The exploratory mission missed its initial launch window in 2022 due to a software glitch, in addition to institutional issues at NASA's JPL.
Three exoplanets were hidden away in 2018 Kepler Space Telescope data, until now.
Lucy is still millions of miles away from its rocky targets but has managed to peek at them from a distance.
