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 are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

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

The first official Trojan was discovered February 22, 1906, by German astronomer Max Wolf. Eight months later, August Kopff discovered a second asteroid near Jupiter’s L5 point; the following ...

Item 1 of 5 NASA's Lucy spacecraft, atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket for a mission to study the Trojan asteroids in the outer solar system, launches from Pad-41 at Cape Canaveral Space ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will make its first flyby of an asteroid, zooming past space rock Dinkinesh before heading to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

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 ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas 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 ...