NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured its first high-resolution images of an asteroid, revealing a space rock with a surprising shape. Asteroid Donaldjohanson formed when two smaller ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped ...

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

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

The spacecraft was launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter. Eight Trojan flybys ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

The upcoming Trojan flybys will give a deeper look into the ancient past. These asteroids move in stable positions around Jupiter and may contain some of the oldest, untouched material in the ...

The mission will follow open data practices to improve the chances of identifying dangerous asteroids. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. When news broke that asteroid 2024 YR4 had a chance of hitting ...

Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a ...