When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid, designated 2019 UO14, a few ...

The Lucy mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids has been chosen by NASA for flight under the agency’s Discovery Program. Lucy will carry an ASU-designed and -developed thermal emission spectrometer, ...

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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 ...

After a long process, the class recovered the Trojan asteroid. Additionally that spring, Kathy Hoogeboom wrote her honors thesis about possible origins of Trojan asteroids and sophomore Melissa ...

In our solar system, there are several thousand examples of co-orbital objects: bodies that share the same orbit around the sun or a planet. The Trojan asteroids are such an example. We have not yet ...