The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

Orbital stability analysis and photometric characterization of the second Earth Trojan asteroid 2020 XL5. Nature Communications . Published online February 1, 2022. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-27988-4.

In 2020, astronomers thought they'd found something incredible: the second so-called Earth Trojan asteroid ever seen. Now, a new team of researchers has confirmed that it's real.

Earth has a SECOND 'Trojan asteroid': 1,800ft-wide space rock is trapped in the same orbit as our planet for at least 4,000 years. Earth's second 'Trojan asteroid' has been discovered by a team of ...

Saturn has finally joined the solar system's other giant planets in possessing a Trojan asteroid, but it may have stolen it. The bouncing asteroid seems to have originated in the Kuiper belt.

I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 ...

Earth has a second known ‘Trojan asteroid’ that shares its orbit By Liz Kruesi February 1, 2022. Space 5 cool things to know about NASA’s Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids ...

Lucy zoomed past Donaldjohanson at incredible speed. The spacecraft captured a series of close-up images using its L’LORRI ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

Trojan asteroid tags along on Earth’s orbit. July 28, 2011. Visiting objects that far requires creative navigation, which explains the craft’s circuitous 4-billion-mile route.