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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After originally believing the "continuously active" object in Jupiter's orbit was the first-known active "Trojan asteroid," scientists have issued a correction and it's just a regular comet. The ...

Jupiter amassed these celestial groupies over a billion years ago, thanks to its tremendous charm, otherwise known as gravity. 2019 LD2 is located in the Trojan clump ahead of the planet.

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.

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 ...

Jupiter's 4,000-plus Trojan asteroids -- so called because each is named for a hero of the Trojan wars -- have the same orbit as Jupiter and are contained in comma-shaped clouds that look ...

Jupiter then did what Jupiter often does to small objects, which was slingshot it in a new direction; in this case, the object landed in the Trojan asteroid group leading Jupiter in its orbit by ...