NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has delivered its most striking discovery yet: a close-range view of a bizarrely shaped asteroid that ...

A NASA spacecraft will make a close approach to an asteroid in the main belt on Sunday afternoon, in the second of several ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set for a high-velocity encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday, April 20, marking a ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

The archeological community has widely accepted the hypothesis that the early hominin species Australopithecus africanus (e.g. Mrs. Ples) descended from A. afarensis (e.g. Lucy). However, “[t]he ...

The asteroid is named after the paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered the fossilised partial skeleton of the hominin named 'Lucy'. Focus: Space, exploration, asteroids +++ Update: NASA's ...

Taieb recognized the potential importance of the Hadar Formation, where remains of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis were found only a few years later. Lisa Winter became social media editor for ...