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NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Donaldjohanson, collecting data and images of the second of its 11 ...
For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space ...
This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...
Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.
NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.
Studies show that 2024 YR4 came from the middle region of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists find it peculiar that 2024 YR4 came from this part of space since this area does ...
Astronomers believe Donaldjohanson is a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ever ...
of the object located in the inner region of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid was named after the paleontologist Donald Johanson, who in 1974 co-discovered the first ...
The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...