The first NASA mission that will fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids has launched on its ambitious journey. Weather conditions were greater than 90% favorable Saturday morning when the Lucy ...

NASAs Lucy mission will study 11 asteroids during its 12-year journey. It has already visited two main-belt targets and will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The asteroid Donaldjohanson, as observed by NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft on April 20, 2025. The grayscale optical image is overlaid by a ...

When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft encountered asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025, it wasn’t just about an odd science target. This encounter also helped prepare the deep-space mission in advance of a ...

At 8 kilometers (5.0 miles) long and 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) wide, asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson or simply DJ, might not seem like the most incredible space rock in the Solar System. Yet a visit ...

Lori Glaze, director of NASA's planetary science division, explained how the agency's Lucy asteroid mission will help illuminate the solar system's formation. "The Lucy mission is really exciting, ...

SpaceX, in its official protest to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, is contesting the $148.3 million contract NASA awarded to ULA for a 2021 unprecedented mission to explore Jupiter’s Trojan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucy found asteroid Donaldjohanson wobbling, scarred by impacts and rich in water-altered minerals from an ancient breakup.

During its April 20, 2025, encounter with the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered evidence for iron-rich clays on the surface of the asteroid using its infrared ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is on a long-haul, first-of-its-kind voyage to unlock the secret history of our solar system, but it’s also filling in more details about more ordinary space rocks along the way ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson does not move through space with the tidy, steady spin scientists often expect. It tumbles in a more complicated way, and after NASA’s Lucy spacecraft swept past it in April ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...