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.

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.

Only one other Trojan asteroid has been spotted around Earth. Scientists spotted the new Trojan candidate on December 12, 2020. Data has since confirmed that it is an Earth Trojan after all.

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

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 ...

On its way to the Trojan swarms, the spacecraft made a pit stop at a rock named Dinkinesh — and the images it sent back revealed that this asteroid has its ... waiting science team on Earth.

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 ...

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 09:27. NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of ...