Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer ...

Learn more about the Lucy mission "fly past 52246 Donaldjohanson -NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard ...

The flyby of Dinkinesh is in addition to another main-belt asteroid, 52246 Donaldjohanson, that it will fly by in 2025. Lucy will then fly by several Trojan asteroids at Jupiter’s distance from ...

Asteroid 2025 OU1, about 140 feet in diameter, will safely pass Earth in 2025. While it poses no immediate threat, scientists ...

Asteroid 2022 YS5, a building-sized space rock, will safely pass Earth on July 17, prompting NASA and ISRO to emphasize the ...

NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe on course for 1st space rock flyby in November : Read more The author repeatedly says that Lucy will stop at various asteroids, which is simply not true. Reply ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of asteroid Dinkinesh as it flew by at 10,000 mph. First images returned by Lucy reveal the asteroid is actually a binary pair! Learn more: https://t ...

A large asteroid zipped past Earth last week, in a relatively rare event that astronomers described as one "very close encounter" with our planet.. The space rock, called 2023 DZ2 by NASA, reached ...

The little asteroid visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists — a mini moon. The spacecraft made the discovery during Wednesday's close flyby of the asteroid ...

Apophis will come to within 20,000 miles of Earth’s surface in 2029, presenting an extraordinary opportunity to study the asteroid from up close.

Apophis asteroid to fly by Earth in April 2029; ... — NASA is considering repurposing a recently shelved mission to study the asteroid Apophis ahead of its Earth flyby later this decade.

NASA's Lucy Mission Flyby of Asteroid Dinkinesh. The flyby will be used to test out the spacecraft’s system for locating an asteroid and locking its instruments onto its location as it flies past.