Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest ...

NASA originally issued a warning in 2021 of the asteroid, as RV-50 was one of five asteroids being monitored that were "within 4.6 million miles (7.5 million kilometers or 19.5 times the distance ...

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...

Languages: English and Italian. NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is ...

The American space agency NASA has issued a warning about a massive asteroid, 2014 TN17, which is approaching our planet. The asteroid, measuring 165 meters in width—twice the size of the Taj ...

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NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office also coordinates the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), which is the worldwide collaboration of asteroid observers and modelers.

The International Asteroid Warning ... news is that NASA demonstrated that it’s possible to alter an asteroid’s trajectory with a first-of-its-kind test conducted in 2021 and 2022.