The spacecraft was launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter. Eight Trojan flybys are planned through 2033. READ MORE:NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's hurtling through space at around 14,000 miles per hour. Measuring about 42 feet in ...

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

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 ...

These asteroids are remnants of our early solar ... co-discovered the Lucy hominid fossil in northern Ethiopia in 1974. Images of the asteroid Lucy took as it approached the three-mile-wide ...

The Trojan asteroids are intriguing to astronomers because ... the Jupiter Trojan asteroid named Eurybates in August 2027. “These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous ...

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

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 ...

A NASA spacecraft is traveling to the most mysterious asteroids in the solar system. On the way there, it snapped images of the curious, elongated asteroid dubbed "Donaldjohanson." On April 20 ...

The photos depict an elongated asteroid that likely ... Donaldjohanson is the second of 10 asteroids scheduled to be studied on Lucy’s 12-year-long mission. “The potential to really open ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close ... launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter. Eight Trojan flybys are planned through ...