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The probe that NASA launched Oct. 16 is not headed to Jupiter. It is headed toward clusters of asteroids along Jupiter's orbital path.

NASA's Lucy probe will arrive at its first target — an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter named 52246 Donaldjohanson, after the discoverer of the Lucy skeleton — in 2025. This is not a Trojan asteroid and is more like a rehearsal flyby for the Lucy mission.

The probe that NASA launched Oct. 16 is not headed to Jupiter. It is headed toward clusters of asteroids along Jupiter's orbital path.

When NASA’s Lucy mission took to the sky (SYFY WIRE was there to see it), it was both venturing out to a new frontier for space exploration and echoing an ode to an extremely old skeleton.

NASA’s Lucy mission launched, but what if you could take a ride on the spacecraft all the way to the Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit? Read on.

Lucy is a spunky space probe with an ambitious 12-year-long, 4-billion-mile journey has...

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate are both in session this week. Both chambers are continuing their efforts to finalize the Democratic-only...

NASA’s Lucy mission launched, but what if you could take a ride on the spacecraft all the way to the Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit? Read on.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space rocks.

A first-of-a-kind NASA launch took place over the weekend, setting the agency's Lucy spacecraft on a pioneering path toward Jupiter to study an unprecedented number of asteroids as part of a single mission.