NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is about to make its very first flyby of an asteroid on Wednesday, Nov. 1. When Lucy flies past the half-mile-wide asteroid, named Dinkinesh, the moment will mark the start of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Lucy spacecraft's long-range reconnaissance imager captured ...

(CNN) — When NASA’s Lucy mission flew by its first asteroid this week, its cameras captured a surprise. The Lucy spacecraft zoomed by the small asteroid Dinkinesh, located in our solar system’s main ...

A spacecraft exploring an asteroid belt successfully "phoned home" to NASA after a high-speed asteroid encounter on Wednesday. Hello Lucy! The spacecraft phoned home and is healthy. Now, the engineers ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which launched in 2021, is on its way to the orbit of Jupiter to study the Trojan asteroids there. It won’t arrive there until 2027, but the spacecraft will have the ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft passed over the Earth's atmosphere this morning on the first anniversary of its launch. It was lower than the International Space Station – just 220 miles above the Earth's ...

Lucy spacecraft, which passed 200 miles above the Earth's surface during the one-year anniversary of its mission, was visible on Sunday morning Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will target its first asteroid later this year, kick-starting its exploration of our Solar System’s origins much sooner than planned. The upcoming rendezvous with 1999 VD57 will ...

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Though officially detected by a NASA-funded ATLAS on July 1, archival records show the comet was actually captured on film as ...

The spacecraft will visit the relatively tiny space rock Dinkinesh, situated between Mars and Jupiter, before heading off to the Trojan asteroids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...