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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 captured the first-ever view of asteroid Donaldjohanson. It was reported by NASA the spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles (960 km). Credit: Space.com | image ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

NASA's newest asteroid probe, named Lucy, successfully launched on 12-year mission to visit 8 asteroids early Saturday (Oct. 16).

On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy probe will fly by the space rock Dinkinesh as a test of its systems before heading to the Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit.

Later this year, a NASA spacecraft named Lucy will launch on a 12-year mission to visit the asteroid belt. Lucy recently unfurled its solar panels in a test.

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 ...

NASA had reason to celebrate Saturday after launching Lucy, a spacecraft tasked with investigating the Trojan asteroids locked in Jupiter's orbit.But Lucy appears to have encountered its first ...