NASA’s LUCY mission, sent to study ancient Trojan asteroids, just sent back a signal no one anticipated. Was it a system ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Donaldjohanson, collecting data and images of the second of its 11 ...

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...

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

Donaldjohanson's structures could reveal clues about the materials and collisions that shaped our Solar System. The Lucy mission, launched in 2021, aims to explore even older asteroids. The Trojan ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...