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 ...

These bits of cosmic flotsam and jetsam are the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. They follow heliocentric orbits with nearly the same semi-major axis as Jupiter, about 5.2 astronomical units.

By 2020 over 7,000 Trojan asteroids had been discovered around Jupiter with two-thirds located around L4 and a third around L5. Astronomers estimate that between 1,800–2,200 of them have widths ...

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

Item 1 of 5 NASA's Lucy spacecraft, atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket for a mission to study the Trojan asteroids in the outer solar system, launches from Pad-41 at Cape Canaveral Space ...

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

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 ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will make its first flyby of an asteroid, zooming past a space rock named Dinkinesh before heading to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.