NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past ...

Lucy's target is a common type of asteroid, composed of silicate rocks ... far from the source regions of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, recently visited respectively ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu. They believe the asteroid is a plant-like object rich in water and ...

“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...

NASA’s mission, in a way, is already in progress. The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three years later—has now ...