NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks and preview what's coming in 2029.

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

A NASA spacecraft is traveling to the most mysterious asteroids in the solar system. On the way there, it snapped images of the curious, elongated asteroid dubbed "Donaldjohanson." On April 20 ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew about 600 miles above an asteroid named Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday, sending back the first close-ups of this oblong, potato-like object believed to be about 150 ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has encountered its second official asteroid, and once again, the object has defied expectations. The asteroid in question, Donaldjohanson, was visited by the mission on ...

This timelapse of the asteroid Donaldjohanson was made from a series of images NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured during its April 20 flyby. This timelapse shows images captured approximately every ...

The asteroid, known by the name of 2025 OW and measuring approximately 210 feet (0.5 kilometers) in length, will pass Earth ...