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The data collected during the Lucy mission flyby will continue to return to Earth over the next week. This information will help the mission team prepare for the spacecraft’s future asteroid ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made the Earth and our environment what it is." ...

By Katrina Miller On Wednesday, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft zoomed by its first asteroid target — and scientists on the mission were shocked to discover that the rock, named Dinkinesh, was actually ...

A year after approval, the mission was officially given a schedule and a set of seven asteroid targets; as time has passed that number has risen to 10. Lucy is named for a famous female ...

But the space agency is in the process of downlinking the remainder of Lucy's data that will give the mission operators a better idea of the asteroid's shape and size. The Donaldjohanson asteroid ...

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(CNN) — When NASA’s Lucy mission flew by its first asteroid this week, its cameras captured a surprise. The Lucy spacecraft zoomed by the small asteroid Dinkinesh, located in our solar system ...

When NASA’s Lucy mission flew by its first asteroid this week, its cameras captured a surprise. The Lucy spacecraft zoomed by the small asteroid Dinkinesh, located in our solar system’s main asteroid ...