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Lucy represents another stage in what is turning out to be a golden age for asteroid study by Nasa. The agency's Osiris-Rex mission is just now heading home after picking up samples from the ...

Attention asteroid aficionados ... The much longer $981 million Lucy mission — the first to Jupiter’s so-called Trojan entourage — is targeting an unprecedented eight asteroids.

This illustration shows the trajectory of NASA's Lucy mission, which is led by Southwest Research Institute. The Lucy spacecraft will launch in 2021 and initially fly by the main belt asteroid ...

Lucy will swoop past Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt ... Two years later, a U.S. capsule with comet dust landed intact. Japan's first asteroid sample mission returned microscopic grains from ...

This artist's concept shows one of now eight objects NASA's Lucy spacecraft will fly by during its 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey. The SwRI-led mission recently discovered that one of the Trojan ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Agency’s (NASA) Lucy Mission has a new target — a satellite orbiting an asteroid. Eurybates’ asteroid moon is estimated to be a kilometre wide. Exploring ...

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In a rare event, an asteroid will be captured by Earth's gravity and will orbit the earth from Sept 29 to Nov 25. On its way to the space rocks Trojans, NASA's Lucy probe observed its smallest ...

The Lucy mission is going to be a 12-year journey. In 2025, its planned journey should see Lucy flying past Donaldjohanson which orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The ...

the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA's mission of the same name. The Psyche spacecraft is set to launch in August 2022 and arrive at the asteroid in ...

BOULDER, Colorado — The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Space Agency is moving forward on a one-after-another mission to the main asteroid belt. The UAE Space Agency-led mission will send a probe to ...