NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is about to make its very first flyby of an asteroid on Wednesday, Nov. 1. When Lucy flies past the half-mile-wide asteroid, named Dinkinesh, the moment will mark the ...

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NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 09:27. A spacecraft exploring an asteroid belt successfully "phoned home" to NASA after a high-speed asteroid encounter on Wednesday.

NASA's Lucy spacceraft will fly by a small main-belt asteroid in November to test the spacecraft's tracking system as well as its stability given that one solar array is not fully deployed. Credit ...

The encounter with Donaldjohanson won't be Lucy's first visit to an asteroid. Having launched on Oct. 16, 2021, Lucy encountered the asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon, Selam, in November of 2023.

Lucy’s timeline. November 1, 2023 – Lucy encounters 1999 VD57 in the main asteroid belt; December 12, 2024 – Lucy performs its second Earth gravity assist ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

NASA’s Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles (960 kilometers) to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles (4 kilometers) in length but much shorter in width.

The asteroid was added to Lucy’s itinerary earlier this year in order to test the spacecraft’s instruments before it reaches the Jovian system and begins exploring Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

An illustration of the Lucy spacecraft during its flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh. Illustration: NASA After traveling millions of miles over the past two years, the Lucy spacecraft has almost reached ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter ...

Lucy, Lucy, Lucy! NASA Spacecraft Snaps Haunting View of Earth From 380,000 Miles Away NASA's Lucy Mission Team Spots a Surprise Tiny Moon Around a Trojan Asteroid ...