NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon travel by asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed roughly 150 million years ago.

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. (Illustration by Johnny Utterback, University ...

Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets as the parent of trailing asteroids called "Trojans." But the ...

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

British rock band The Beatles put out a song titled ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’. The song’s letters, LSD, were said at ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

2. Trojan asteroids: The Jupiter Trojan asteroids are a group of small bodies that share an orbit with Jupiter around the Sun. These asteroids are important because they may hold clues about the ...

This second asteroid encounter for the Lucy spacecraft will serve as a dress-rehearsal for the spacecraft's main targets, the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Lucy had already ...

The much longer $981 million Lucy mission — the first to Jupiter’s so-called Trojan entourage — is targeting an unprecedented eight asteroids. Lucy aims to sweep past seven of the countless ...

NASA is working to launch a mission in 2021 to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. This mission, called Lucy, will be the first-ever space mission to study Jupiter's Trojans, and is expected to ...