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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 spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...
The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...
As we move through the year and check celestial events off the calendar, there are still six meteor showers left to see in ...
Long before it reaches its destination, NASA's Lucy spacecraft delivers valuable data. Now it has passed a particularly unusually shaped asteroid.
Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.
This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut.
A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...