NASA’s Lucy mission made a close flyby of the Dinkinesh asteroid on November 1, capturing data about the rocky object in the main asteroid belt. As it turns out, this small little guy was hiding ...

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.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which embarked on a mission to unravel the mysteries of our solar system’s asteroid belt, has made a groundbreaking discovery. It has revealed the presence of two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

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

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 ...