“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” ...

Lucy helped change that. Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of ...

NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby around 139 million miles (223 million km) from Earth.

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which was ...

Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

afarensis as "the ape that walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution. Lucy's pelvis hints that she walked upright on two legs. When her crushed remains were ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently conducted a close flyby of a small asteroid in the main belt on Sunday.The spacecraft passed ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.