Learn more about the Lucy mission "fly past 52246 Donaldjohanson -NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard ...

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer ...

Once there, Lucy will conduct four flybys, observing at least six asteroids. According to NASA, the first close encounter will be with asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. Want to learn more?

Scientists with NASA's Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft's April 20 encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson.

Asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy spacecraft from a range of about 1,700 miles (2,700 km), about 3.2 minutes before closest approach on April 20, 2025. This is the highest resolution ...

Senegal has become the 56th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration, NASA announced. The accords ...

Senegal signed the Artemis Accords Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, becoming the latest nation to commit to the responsible exploration of ...

From left to right, Ambassador of Senegal to the United States Abdoul Wahab Haidara, Director General of the Senegalese space ...

An exceedingly rare asteroid flyby will happen soon, but NASA may be left on the sidelines "Nature is handing us an incredibly rare experiment." ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

Asteroid Day At 10: How The World Is More Prepared Than Ever To Face Celestial Threats Good news – we are better at planetary defense than we were a decade ago.