The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in April. Reading time 2 minutes The Lucy spacecraft just got its first good ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

The Donaldjohanson asteroid imaged by NASA's Lucy spacecraft. NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Lucy spacecraft just pulled off its second ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s first views of the asteroid Donaldjohanson. The asteroid is outlined with a square in the right image to guide the eye. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has delivered its most striking discovery yet: a close-range view of a bizarrely shaped asteroid that looks like a pair of colliding ice cream cones drifting through deep space.

The official names of asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson’s surface features — as identified by the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy Mission — have been approved by the International Astronomical Union ...