Instead of picturing yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies, picture a spacecraft approaching a series of asteroids trapped by Jupiter’s gravity. On Sunday, April 20, ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

“The potential to really open a new window into the history of our solar system when Lucy gets to the Trojan asteroids is immense,” commented Tom Statler, NASA program scientist for the Lucy mission, ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a flyby of a three-mile-wide asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, sending back a video composed of 37 images. Called (52246) Donaldjohanson, it’s the ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some improvements to its trajectory along the way. A new paper suggests it might ...

Anne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, will soon be working with NASA to take a closer look at Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Verbiscer is one of eight ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space rocks. The robotic ...

NASA's Lucy mission is key to helping us understand the early history of our solar system as it studies asteroids like the Donaldjohanson. Named after the paleoanthropologist who co-discovered the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft just pulled off its second asteroid flyby and imaged a frankly tasty-looking rock: a peanut-shaped asteroid named Donaldjohanson. The oblong asteroid is a fragment of a ...

An overview of the asteroids : the Asteroids III perspective / W.F. Bottke Jr. ... [et al.] -- Giuseppe Piazzi and the discovery of Ceres / G. Foderà Serio, A. Manara and P. Sicoli -- Asteroid orbit ...