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Lucy represents another stage in what is turning out to be a golden age for asteroid study by Nasa. The agency's Osiris-Rex mission is just now heading home after picking up samples from the ...

Attention asteroid aficionados ... The much longer $981 million Lucy mission — the first to Jupiter’s so-called Trojan entourage — is targeting an unprecedented eight asteroids.

The asteroid 16 Psyche ... as well as deputy project investigator for NASA's Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. Why do scientists think Psyche used to be the core of a planet or protoplanet?

The SwRI-led Lucy mission will survey eight asteroids in 12 years with one spacecraft, breaking records in its epic journey to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. These diverse, never-before-visited ...

This illustration shows the trajectory of NASA's Lucy mission, which is led by Southwest Research Institute. The Lucy spacecraft will launch in 2021 and initially fly by the main belt asteroid ...

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

The United Arab Emirates will launch a mission to visit several asteroids later this decade on a Japanese H3 rocket.

The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.

The asteroid Dimorphos had its 12-hour orbit shortened by a half-hour. Shortly after 7 pm EST, the DART spacecraft will smack ...

The mission will see its spacecraft, Vestri, dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown. The company announced the new mission alongside details of $40 ...