The surprisingly large world has a massive orbit—about 838 times Earth’s distance from the Sun.
Webb data suggests a massive dust cloud observed 20 years ago around Beta Pictoris was caused by a cataclysmic asteroid collision.
The 1,600-foot-long space rock will come within three million miles of Earth.
The planned UAE Space Agency mission could launch a spacecraft towards the main asteroid belt in 2028.
New observations of the rock show its comet-like tail is not made of dust, possibly altering the origin story of the Geminid meteor shower.
Lucy is still millions of miles away from its rocky targets but has managed to peek at them from a distance.
The roughly Colosseum-sized rock marks a new kind of target for Webb Space Telescope.
NASA will test the spacecraft’s asteroid-tracking navigation system during the impromptu encounter, slated for November.
The space agency has prepared two maneuvers to prevent the spacecraft from colliding with a satellite inside the most crowded region of Earth's orbit.
Ahead of the Lucy mission, astronomers are gearing up to observe eclipses of Trojan asteroids as they appear over Europe and parts of North Africa.
The Italian-built LICIACube watched from a distance as the NASA spacecraft rammed into the unsuspecting asteroid.
The asteroid could've swallowed the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, according to a new study.
A follow-up mission by the European Space Agency could find a very different looking Dimorphos.
A failure to fix Lucy's partially deployed array could result in further damage to the spacecraft.
The icy objects appear strikingly similar to comets in our own solar system.
China’s space agency is also seeking to develop a ground-based asteroid monitoring and warning system, in what is a welcome development.
The dwarf planet must pack a lot of heat, otherwise its expansive cryovolcanoes wouldn’t exist, new research suggests.
The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in 2031, and it’s already attracting major attention from astronomers.
The Amazon Studios show wrapped its sixth and final season last week, and we have feelings about it.
Season 6, episode 6, "Babylon's Ashes," offered an action-packed yet poignant farewell to the much-loved Amazon Studios.
