See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: a significant chance that a “city killer” rock could slam into the Moon ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson does not move through space with the tidy, steady spin scientists often expect. It tumbles in a more complicated way, and after NASA’s Lucy spacecraft swept past it in April ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

Nearly 400 days and a billion kilometers after leaving Earth, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has arrived at its target: the ...

On April 20, 2025, the Lucy spacecraft swooped by an odd-looking asteroid, capturing close-up views of its peanut-shaped body and cratered surface. The images told a brutal origin story, one that ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered that asteroid Donaldjohanson is a wobbling, peanut-shaped relic born from a violent collision and slowly reshaped by the subtle force of sunlight. It also carries ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google NEW YORK — A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don’t worry: It poses no danger. The space rock — ...

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The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the Sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks ...