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.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

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This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut.

Hal Levison, principal investigator for Lucy at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said: “Asteroid ...

The first images of asteroid Donaldjohanson after Lucy spacecraft 's April 20 flyby have arrived. NASA shared the pictures on ...

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The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or ...