It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Vatican Observatory Report! Discover Br. Bob Macke’s work on asteroid Bennu and more groundbreaking science from VO ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock.

A festival of music, comedy, and more in Lowell. The spirit of literary legend Jack Kerouac lives on in Lowell next weekend ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most of them are found in the main asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting ...

NASA has shared an important update on how it plans to defend Earth from potential asteroid collisions. A recent scare involving asteroid 2024 YR4 has reignited global concerns about space rocks ...