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.

Long before it reaches its destination, NASA's Lucy spacecraft delivers valuable data. Now it has passed a particularly unusually shaped asteroid.

A new milestone in the exploration of outer space. NASA has shared images of the progress of one of its most important missions, managing to capture the movement of one of the aste ...

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

Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions ...

NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock.

In this debate, the researchers have relied on the study of artifacts, like spearheads, found with mammoth bones. In 2024 a ...

Lucy Sweeney is a digital journalist with the ABC's climate and regional team, based in Brisbane. Since joining the ABC in 2013, she has worked as a digital producer, live blogger, writer and ...