NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.

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.

Hal Levison, principal investigator for Lucy at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said: “Asteroid ...

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 ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

NASA says the asteroid Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago. The post NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures first images of lumpy, odd-shaped asteroid appeared first on Talker.

N ASA’s Lucy spacecraft has encountered its second official asteroid, and once again, the object has defied expectations. The ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured the most detailed images yet of an oddly shaped asteroid during its recent flyby.