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NASA's Lucy spacecraft just sent home an impressive glimpse of the smallest asteroid target on its 12-year agenda to study intriguing space rocks.

NASAs Lucy spacecraft just sent home an impressive glimpse of the smallest asteroid target on its 12-year in space.

After a successful mission to Mars, the Emirati space agency is planning a tour of the debris field between Mars and Jupiter, with a focus on one of its most intriguing objects.

Building off the success of its Hope spacecraft, which is still circling and studying Mars, the United Arab Emirates announced

NASAs Lucy spacecraft has altered its course ahead of visiting its first target in Nov. 2023 on its way to become the first probe to visit the Trojan asteroids.

NASA's mission to the little-known Trojan asteroids captured the endeavor's first look at these distant space rocks. The Lucy spacecraft is still 330 million miles away, but will arrive in 2027.

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The asteroid that NASAs Lucy craft will visit in Nov 2023 has finally been given a name, Dinkinesh, meaning "you are marvelous" in Amharic.

NASA's Lucy Mission has locked in on a new target asteroid. An extra space rock has been designated for NASA's Jupiter Trojan asteroid-scouting mission to explore, bringing the program's total number of space rocks to 10 so far.

NASA will test the spacecraft’s asteroid-tracking navigation system during the impromptu encounter, slated for November.