A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

And the University of Hawaii has been selected to be a part of this history making adventure. Here are some facts to know: 1.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, part of an ambitious mission to explore the outer solar system, has successfully captured its first images of the asteroid Donaldjohanson. This marks an important step in the ...

The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids is currently cruising through the Asteroid Belt, and will fly close to asteroid Donaldjohanson in April.

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 ...

The L4 and L5 Jupiter Trojan swarms are two clusters that contain more than 10,000 asteroids. Each of these swarms follows the gas giant along its orbital path around the Sun, and for decades ...

Join Coralie Adam and Renae Kerrigan for a space exploration discussion, available via Zoom and in-person at Jacksonville ...

The Eurybates flyby will help researchers understand how the Trojan asteroids ended up mostly together in front of Jupiter in its orbit of the Sun, and why the Trojans have the compositions that ...

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 ...

The spacecraft for the SwRI-led Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids traveled from Colorado to Florida on July 30 aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane. It was packed inside a shipping ...

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 ...

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 ...