Join Coralie Adam and Renae Kerrigan for a space exploration discussion, available via Zoom and in-person at Jacksonville ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently obtained its first clear images of the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, which is now within its line of sight. Lucy captured these images while it was 45 ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, part of an ambitious mission to explore the outer solar system, has successfully captured its first ...

NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These asteroids are remnants of our early solar system trapped on stable orbits associated ...

On April 20, Lucy will encounter a small main-belt asteroid, Donaldjohanson, as a sort of test sequence before it visits seven Trojan asteroids ... a wonky acronym for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.

The mission was launched in 2021 to study Trojan asteroids that travel around the Sun with Jupiter and three others in the solar system. Asteroid Donaldjohanson is not a Trojan, but its position in ...

A research team led by Prof. Long Shibing from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese ...

The agencies, referring to a live broadcast by the Roscosmos space agency, said the spacecraft separated from the third stage of the Soyuz 2.1a rocket and went into orbit at 12:33 a.m. Moscow time ...

A general view of the Orion Nebula during the planet parade or planetary alignment when four planets are visible to the naked eye on the evening sky in Sparta N.C. on January 25, 2025.