Attention asteroid aficionados ... The much longer $981 million Lucy mission — the first to Jupiter’s so-called Trojan entourage — is targeting an unprecedented eight asteroids.

That’s because Lucy’s instruments logged several times where the asteroid’s brightness changed ... flybys in the coming years as Lucy’s mission continues. Josh Hawkins has been writing ...

Lucy represents another stage in what is turning out to be a golden age for asteroid study by Nasa. The agency's Osiris-Rex mission is just now heading home after picking up samples from the ...

NASA's Lucy ... led mission to begin, as the spacecraft prepares to launch on a 12-year journey of almost 4 billion miles to visit a record-breaking eight asteroids—one main belt asteroid ...

This illustration shows the trajectory of NASA's Lucy mission, which is led by Southwest Research Institute. The Lucy spacecraft will launch in 2021 and initially fly by the main belt asteroid ...

The trojan asteroid, also called Trojan planet ... Maryland. NASA says the Lucy space mission will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

The mission will see its spacecraft, Vestri, dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown. The company announced the new mission alongside details of $40 ...

The two CubeSat passengers aboard ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense have exchanged their first signals with Earth, ...

The Lucy mission is the first space mission to explore this diverse population of small bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These small bodies are trapped in stable orbits shared with ...