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The Lucy spacecraft will observe the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Sunday afternoon, before it moves on to study a handful of ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...
If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...
A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...
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 ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...
The type of meteorites that could have been crucial to the origins of life are very rare, but the asteroids they come from are common. Astronomers have long had an explanation for this paradox, but ...