Jupiter’s Trojans are asteroids that share the gas giant’s orbit around the Sun, clustering at one of two Lagrange points in the Jupiter-Sun system (L4 or L5, 60° ahead of or behind Jupiter in its ...

NASA Lucy spacecraft has completed spring 2026 camera calibration for its first Jupiter Trojan asteroid flybys, solving an ...

Observations conducted with the Subaru Telescope and its first-generation wide-field camera, Suprime-Cam, have revealed new insights into the relationship between the color and size of Jupiter Trojan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid, designated 2019 UO14, a few thousand years ago as the space rock ...

Ahead of the Lucy mission, astronomers are gearing up to observe eclipses of Trojan asteroids as they appear over Europe and parts of North Africa. Reading time 5 minutes Astronomer Marc Buie has been ...

A new study based on observations from the Subaru Telescope reveals that smaller Jupiter Trojan asteroids behave very differently from their larger counterparts, challenging long-standing assumptions ...

Lucy is still millions of miles away from its rocky targets but has managed to peek at them from a distance. Reading time 2 minutes A NASA probe sent to observe Jupiter’s swarm of asteroids recently ...

Berkeley — A bound pair of icy comets similar to the dirty snowballs circling outside the orbit of Neptune has been found lurking in the shadow of Jupiter. Astronomers at the University of California, ...