Lucy Stories
This article was updated to include the full range of dates from the SOHO image. Lee esta historia en español…

The IAU (International Astronomical Union), a global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson,…

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close…

Although NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a…

NASA has selected eight participating scientists to join its Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These asteroids are remnants of…

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between…

Images from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on Dinkinesh where a…

NASA's Lucy Spacecraft took images of asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that the asteroid has the first-ever contact binary pair orbiting the…

Researchers have utilized infrared survey data to refine the asteroid’s size and surface brightness in support of the Nov. 1…


