a flyby of the asteroid 21 Lutetia in 2010. The presence of metal at that time was inconclusive. A much more capable mission, NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche spacecraft, is currently on its way to an ...

Asteroid Lutetia and Saturn. At a distance of 36000 km the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) took this image catching the planet Saturn in the background. (photo credit: ESA. Used under CC BY-SA 4. ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a potential ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has raised the estimated risk of impact of asteroid 2024 YR4. Current estimate is 2% impact risk, doubling previous assessments. The asteroid has been given a ...