Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...

A prolific astronomer from Vancouver Island has immortalized the name “Saanich” by naming a recently certified asteroid after ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...