But before the probe reached Jupiter, it made several pit stops, including to the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. You may like 'Right now, we are in what has to be a Golden Age of asteroid exploration.' ...

The Galileo spacecraft captured this view of asteroid 951 Gaspra in 1991. It was the first time a spacecraft made a close flyby of an asteroid.

For instance, Galileo traveled about 2.5 billion miles (4 billion km) to get to the gas giant, taking gravity assists from Venus, Earth, and even the asteroid Gaspra along the way. JUICE will ...

NASA’s Galileo probe previously surveyed asteroids Gaspra and Ida a decade earlier on its way to far-off Jupiter. But with NEAR Shoemaker’s trip, Eros became the first asteroid to host an ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.