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

NASA has released the first high-resolution images of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing its unusual peanut-like shape following a key encounter by the Lucy spacecraft earlier this year.

NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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.