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.

The potential to really open a new window into the history of our solar system when Lucy gets to the Trojan asteroids is ...

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.

Our planet has a celestial sentry leading the way around the sun, and it’s only the second Earth Trojan asteroid ever discovered. Astronomers observed asteroid 2020 XL5 using the Southern ...

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.

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.

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would ...

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

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 ...

NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.

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 ...