When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft was sent past a small asteroid named Dinkinesh in November 2023, the team treated it mostly as a dress rehearsal. The flyby was added late in the mission planning to test ...
The official names of asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson’s surface features — as identified by the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy Mission — have been approved by the International Astronomical Union ...
NASA’s Lucy Mission launched in October of 2021 and will be the first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. By the end of its twelve-year mission, the spacecraft will have flown by a record-breaking number ...