A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird.

Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.

NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...