World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Researchers using data from the Gaia mission’s third data release have found 3,038 binary asteroid candidates. These celestial pairs include an asteroid and a smaller moonlet. Using a novel ...

The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but ...

Animation showing the binary pair. Gif: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/ASU. The asteroid was added to Lucy’s itinerary earlier this year in order to test the spacecraft’s instruments before it reaches the ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new celestial object: an active binary asteroid. Body 288P is the first known hybrid of two rare types of asteroid: a binary that’s made up of two rocks ...

Radar images show the binary asteroid 2020 BX12, which scientists discovered this year. (Image credit: Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF) The asteroid's flyby wasn't a threat to life on Earth, but it ...

A solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it became a moon that now orbits the space rock, new research found.

NASA has discovered that an asteroid named Dinky is orbited by a tiny moon, forming a binary asteroid pair. In other words, it’s an even dinkier Dinky.

Preliminary studies of Lucy’s first images of the binary asteroid pair indicate that the bigger rock is about half a mile wide, while its satellite is about 0.15 miles wide.

The unnamed space rock designated as Asteroid (66391) 1999 KW4 is a binary system, meaning it's composed of one large asteroid orbited by a smaller moon.