The original plan for OKEANOS was to launch a sample return mission to one of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids that sit in the Lagrange points in front of and behind Jupiter and its orbital path.

The much longer $981 million Lucy mission — the first to Jupiter’s so-called Trojan entourage — is targeting an unprecedented eight asteroids. Lucy aims to sweep past seven of the countless ...

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, has captured a stunning image of Earth, along with a photo of the Earth and the Moon, as part of gravity assist to ...

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, ...