The original plan for OKEANOS was to launch a sample return mission to one of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids that sit in the ...

All about the first human in space Santana-Ros said there could be more Trojan asteroids around Earth awaiting detection. The two Lagrange points where they might exist, L4 and L5, are notoriously ...

Hundreds of Trojan Asteroids orbit Jupiter and Mars, and even Saturn's moons engage in this cosmic dance. Imagine understanding Lagrange points as reading a weather map – the lines on the map ...

Utilizing a third and final gravity-assisted boost around Earth in 2031, Lucy will arrive at the L5 Lagrange point of Jupiter, the Trojan camp cloud of asteroids, in 2033; there it will conduct ...

Jupiter's Trojan asteroids are the last remnants of 'planetesimals ... However, some were trapped in two different regions, close to the Lagrange points (L4 and L5), where the gravitational ...