Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.

On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past the three-mile-wide main belt asteroid (52246 ... before-explored Trojan asteroids in the Jupiter system. SAN ANTONIO — April 15 ...

the deep dive has only just begun as the asteroid Juno retrogrades into the psychic, bone-handled shovel of Scorpio this week. Named after the long-suffering wife of serial cheater Jupiter (the ...

The bodies smashed into one another, breaking into fragments that settled into an asteroid belt 158 million miles from Earth. If a young Jupiter had passed through the belt while settling into its ...

The tumbling asteroid Eros (shown here in a time sequence taken during NEAR's approach) was a challenging target for space navigators. NASA/JHU Applied Physics Laboratory Bob Farquhar feels lucky.