NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by ...

There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since ...

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.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft swooped past a small asteroid last weekend as it made its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out ...

Long before it reaches its destination, NASA's Lucy spacecraft delivers valuable data. Now it has passed a particularly unusually shaped asteroid.

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...

This 150-million-year old space rock may look like a badly-shaped potato but studying it could help scientists understand how ...