The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

The potential to really open a new window into the history of our solar system when Lucy gets to the Trojan asteroids is ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a pivotal encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Capturing high-resolution images ...

NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will make its first flyby of an asteroid, zooming past space rock Dinkinesh before heading to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

What you might now know, though, is that two of Jupiter’s asteroid swarms have left astronomers scratching their heads for decades now. The L4 and L5 Jupiter Trojan swarms are two clusters that ...

Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids congregate at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of the Jupiter-Sun system, meaning they orbit in groups that lead and trail the gas giant planet.

Jupiter’s more than 12,000 known Trojan asteroids that are in the same orbit as our sun are the most common example. The asteroids in Jupiter’s orbit were named after heroes of the Trojan War ...