The potential to really open a new window into the history of our solar system when Lucy gets to the Trojan asteroids is ...

The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape. This came ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...

NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.

NASA’s Lucy mission is the first to visit the Trojan asteroids. Lucy will help answer questions about the formation of the solar system.

Lucy zoomed past Donaldjohanson at incredible speed. The spacecraft captured a series of close-up images using its L’LORRI ...

Our #LucyMission just caught its first glimpse of its very-distant destinations, Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, more than 330 million miles away. Lucy launched in 2021, yet won't fly by these ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids for a chance to get a closer look at the primordial rocks. But before its scheduled arrival at the Trojans in 2027, Buie and ...

The Trojan asteroids orbit the Sun in two main groups, one that leads ahead of Jupiter and another that follows behind. The first Trojan asteroid was spotted on February 22, 1906, by German ...

The Trojan asteroids are intriguing to astronomers because they are believed to be composed of raw materials left over from the formation some 4 billion years ago of our solar system’s giant ...