MYSTERIOUS: Lucy loc - You Need To See This

In 2021, a spacecraft was launched to explore a special group of asteroids within our solar system. Six years later, it will make its next flyby

NASA’s Lucy mission will study 11 asteroids during its 12-year journey. It has already visited two main-belt targets and will next visit Eurybates and its satellite Queta in August 2027. The mission will then continue its planned flybys of Jupiter Trojan asteroids through 2033.

The Economic Times · Oct 1

Juicy new details emerge about an asteroid NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by last year

Evidence of chemical alteration by liquid water has been found on the asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed further from the sun before being shoved inwards.

Space · Jun 19

Asteroid 'Dinky,' visited by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, birthed its own moon

Dinkinesh, the asteroid visited by NSA’s Lucy mission in 2023, has a small moon that is made from two objects touching each other.

Space · May 29, 2024