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NASA’s Lucy mission flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh this week, and the images it captured revealed not one but two space rocks.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird. The asteroid Donaldjohanson—named after the paleoanthropologist ...

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 09:27. A spacecraft exploring an asteroid belt successfully "phoned home" to NASA after a high-speed asteroid encounter on Wednesday.

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

The first NASA mission to study Jupiter’s asteroid swarms launched at 5:34 a.m. ET on October 16. Lucy is the first spacecraft designed to visit the Trojan asteroids and observe these remnants ...

The launch will be covered live on NASA TV. Lucy will fly by its first asteroid target in April 2025, a main-belt asteroid named after Donald Johanson, the American anthropologist who co ...

And some lucky observers will be able to spot Lucy from Earth, says NASA. The asteroid-hopping spacecraft will be visible from western Australia at around 6:55 AM EST.

When and where to watch the NASA ‘Lucy’ launch live “Lucy’s” launch window begins at 5:34 a.m. EDT on Saturday, October 16, 2021.

Tomorrow morning at approximately 7:04 a.m. EDT, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will skim the Earth’s atmosphere, passing only 220 miles above the planet’s surfance. According to the agency, the ...

Lucy flies over a Trojan asteroid in this NASA animation. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA is no stranger to the solar system's most mammoth planet, the gas giant Jupiter.

If all goes well on NASA's launch day on Saturday, Lucy will continue on toward the Trojan asteroids at about 39,000 mph (62,764 kph).