NASA's Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission will get a close-up view of a small ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, NASA’s Lucy probe completed its first flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh ... The probe will now continue its mission deeper into our solar system, capturing data and images ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...