However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

On January 2, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the unique asteroid 2018 CN41, but soon had to remove the object from the official li ...

April 20 Lucy Spacecraft Flyby NASA's Lucy spacecraft will fly by asteroid Donaldjohanson as part of its mission to study Trojan asteroids ... on its course to study Jupiter's moon Europa.

She leads the multi-mission Optical Navigation team at KinetX Aerospace is currently the Deputy Navigation Chief on NASA’s Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Register for the virtual ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour.

Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, (246) Asporina and (4125) Lew Allen, are the subject of a new study that has found they could be leftover pieces from these ...