NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and ...

NASA sent the Lucy probe out to study ancient space rocks, not to rewrite the rulebook on how small worlds can assemble themselves. Yet as the spacecraft has raced through the inner solar system on ...

Learn more about the Lucy mission "fly past 52246 Donaldjohanson -NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dan Gallagher: Producer/Narrator Adriana Manrique ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space rocks. The robotic ...

Named for the fossilized human ancestor, Lucy will be the first mission to study Trojan asteroids, believed to 4 billion year left overs from the formation of the solar system. NASA is preparing to ...

NASA’s Lucy Mission launched in October of 2021 and will be the first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. By the end of its twelve-year mission, the spacecraft will have flown by a record-breaking number ...