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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...