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

The potential to really open a new window into the history of our solar system when Lucy gets to the Trojan asteroids is ...

The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

Scientists with NASA's Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft's April 20 encounter with the ...

Lucy zoomed past Donaldjohanson at incredible speed. The spacecraft captured a series of close-up images using its L’LORRI ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft had its second rendezvous with an asteroid over the weekend, this time with the uniquely named Donaldjohanson space rock. On April 20, the probe’s Lucy Long-Range ...

"Asteroid Donaldjohanson has strikingly complicated geology," Hal Levison, principal investigator for Lucy at Southwest Research Institute, said in a statement.

The Donaldjohanson asteroid is not a primary science target of the Lucy mission, which commenced on Oct. 16, 2021 with the launch of the solar-powered spacecraft from the Cape Canaveral Space ...

NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology' 'Right now, we are in what has to be a Golden Age of asteroid exploration.' ...

NASA's space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from Earth -- and scientists aren't sure what they're going to find.

Asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy spacecraft from a range of about 1,700 miles (2,700 km), about 3.2 minutes before closest approach on April 20, 2025.