Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
NASA’s Lucy Captures First Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson Ahead of Close Flyby
Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...
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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Reveals Surprising Complexity of Asteroid Dinkinesh
Lucy approached Dinkinesh in November 2023, revealing that it had a small moon now dubbed Selam. This smaller companion ...
Lucy spacecraft takes its first images of asteroid Donaldjohanson
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the ...
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NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe takes 1st images of its next target: Donaldjohanson
Like Donaldjohanson, Dinkinesh and Selam are also inhabitants of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Selam in particular was very interesting because it turned out to be a contact binary ...
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NASA spacecraft gets first photos of Asteroid Donaldjohansen on way to exploring even bigger space prize
The spacecraft has valued experience as it successfully observed the tiny main belt asteroid Dinkinesh and its contact binary moon, Selam, in November 2023. NASA says this second asteroid ...
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NASA picks SpaceX rocket to launch asteroid threat hunter NEO Surveyor in 2027
In November 2021, a Falcon 9 sent NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) probe on its way to the binary asteroid system Didymos. Ten months later, DART slammed into the smaller space rock ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures first images of asteroid Donaldjohanson
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently obtained its first clear images of the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, which is now within its line of sight. Lucy captured these images while it was 45 ...