NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

Lucy’s first asteroid flyby was in 2023 when it swept past little Dinkinesh, also in the main asteroid belt. The spacecraft discovered a mini moon around it.

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width. Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following ...

Using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS), a team of astronomers took images of the asteroid through four different filters. The observations allowed the team to determine its composition ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun.

He also affirmed that this review yielded positive results and successfully achieved its objectives, reflecting remarkable progress in the national team’s capabilities, and reinforcing the ...

Thus, even the preternaturally anxious C-3PO should be able to calmly tell any space smuggler that “the probability of colliding with an asteroid in the main belt is 1 in a billion.” ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has found a hidden asteroid "moon" swirling around the larger main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, affectionately known as Dinky. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

There are more than a million objects in the Solar System’s asteroid belt. NASA’s even visited a few of them, such as Bennu and, soon, Psyche. However, another asteroid named 33 Polyhymnia ...