The solar-powered probe conducted a flyby on April 20 of the asteroid and has begun transmitting images back to Earth ... from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

"These early images of Donaldjohanson ... currently headed toward Jupiter on an asteroid-hopping mission, has captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the space rock 52246 Donaldjohanson.

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NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew about 600 miles above an asteroid named Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday, sending back the first close-ups of this oblong, potato-like object believed to be about 150 ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew about 600 miles above an asteroid named Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday, sending back the first close-ups of this oblong, potato-like object believed to be about 150 ...

The spacecraft has begun returning images that were collected as it flew approximately 600 miles (960 km) from the asteroid ... NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Well, unlike ...

April 24 (UPI) --China launched a crew of three astronauts for orbit Thursday to begin a six-month-long mission aboard the Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou-20 spacecraft blasted off from the ...