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TITUSVILLE, Fla. — NASA is scheduled to launch its new asteroid exploring spacecraft, Lucy, into space Saturday morning. After the launch, Lucy will set out on its path to become the first spacecraft ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

The comet is the third interstellar object from deep space ever recorded to pass through Earth’s solar system.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reaches perihelion hidden from Earth's view. Learn why NASA and ESA spacecraft have a front-row ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L'LORRI). This ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reached its perihelion, the closest point to the sun, and is expected to be most active on ...

The official names of asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson’s surface features — as identified by the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy Mission — have been approved by the International Astronomical Union ...

Perihelion for 3I/ATLAS takes place on Oct. 30, when the interstellar interloper will be 1.35 astronomical units (125 million ...