However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

They confirmed it is one of only two of what are called Trojan asteroids travelling as a companion with Earth. Trojan asteroids can be wanderers in the solar system – as appears to be the case ...

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 mission aims to send Lucy on a flyby past a collection of space rocks known as the Trojan asteroids. These are rocks that are believed to be “leftovers” from when the solar system was in ...

The SwRI-led mission recently discovered that one of the Trojan asteroids orbiting in tandem with Jupiter has a small satellite.

On January 2, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the unique asteroid 2018 CN41, but soon had to remove the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...