Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid ... spotted the asteroid moving against a background of stars.

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid ... relative to the background stars as the spacecraft rapidly approaches the asteroid. Donaldjohanson will remain ...

The spacecraft has valued experience as it successfully observed the tiny main belt asteroid ... which uses the asteroid’s apparent position against the star background to ensure an accurate ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

With the Moon rising late in the evening, there’s time before moonrise to catch an asteroid in action ... re done enjoying the sight of the main-belt world through your scope, skim back over ...

“The spacecraft already successfully observed the main-belt asteroid Dinkinesh and its ... part of its optical navigation program, which uses the asteroid’s apparent position against the star ...

The upshot is that Webb was able to analyze the spectra from the background galaxy ... the telescope recently detected an alien asteroid belt. It's in the Fomalhaut system about 25 light-years ...