On April 20, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a pivotal encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Capturing high-resolution images of the asteroid in a critical “dress rehearsal ...

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped peanut ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width. Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following ...

NASA snaps detailed photos of ‘strikingly complicated’ asteroid Donaldjohanson is a larger space rock than astronomers predicted. Andrew Paul Apr 21, 2025 3:40 PM EDT ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close ...

NASA's space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from Earth -- and scientists aren't sure what they're going to find.