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The spacecraft was launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter. Eight Trojan flybys are planned through 2033. "These early images of Donaldjohanson are ...

New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape ... NASA tracks the locations and orbits of roughly 28,000 asteroids by scanning the entire night sky every 24 hours. The space agency ...

NASA has recently shared images of two asteroids, 2011 UL21 and 2024 MK, that had a close shave with Earth, narrowly missing a collision with our planet. The snapshots were captured by the team at ...

The unexpected 2020 collapse of the Arecibo Observatory left NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar as the new heavy hitter when ...

Astronomers can also use ground-based observatories, like the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (the third member of NASA's Deep Space Network), to capture images of asteroids as they pass ...

especially since this first set of images does not capture the full asteroid in a single shot. Lucy was launched in 2021 to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which share the gas giant’s orbit ...

The new images of both asteroids were released July 3 by NASA' Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). 2011 UL21's newly discovered minimoon, which has not been named, is what researchers call a small ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the ...

Two asteroids have stargazers' attention this ... scientists estimated from photos of the event. Reindeer herders miles away described witnessing a fireball trailing smoke, then a brilliant ...

Asteroids, microbes ... As is so often the case in photography, some of Mutchler’s favorite science images this year are products of excellent timing: Consider how tiny the International ...