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The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a pivotal encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Capturing high-resolution images ...
Scientists with NASA's Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft's April 20 encounter with the ...
NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique ...
Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...
NASA's Lucy mission captured the highest resolution image yet of Donaldjohanson, the uniquely shaped asteroid.
NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.
A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet. The first of these little-known companions to the Jovian giant was ...
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 ...