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

Scientists with NASA's Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft's April 20 encounter with the ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet.

For billions of years, Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids have orbited undisturbed, preserving chemical and physical clues from the ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft didn’t find any Earth Trojans caught up in Earth’s orbit during its February search for asteroids, but its cameras worked better than expected in a critical test of ...

The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids Sara Hashemi - Daily Correspondent April 23, 2025 ...

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 ...

The fifth planet from the sun has around 10,000 known Trojan asteroids, enough to be divided into two families. One is ahead of the gas giant planet in its orbit (the Greek camp) and the other is ...

Scientists have finally discovered a Trojan asteroid for Saturn, thereby establishing the presence of these celestial bodies alongside all giant planets in our solar system. For a very long time ...

Trojan asteroids follow roughly the same path around the sun as a nearby planet—in this case, Saturn. The first of them was discovered in 1906 by Max Wolf.

The NASA spacecraft Lucy will visit eight of them between 2027 and 2033 (SN: 10/15/21) . Trojan asteroids also exist for Uranus and Neptune and even for Earth and Mars (SN: 2/1/22).