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The spacecraft will travel 6.3 billion kilometres during its 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.

Spacecraft with name inspired by a skeleton and the Beatles, and with lab-grown gems, starts 12-year quest

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year ...

The billion-dollar mission is the first with multiple asteroid flybys in an ambitious bid to study the solar system's origins.

In a novel bid to seek out the origin of our solar system, the US space agency on Saturday launched the Lucy mission, the agencys first to Jupiters Trojan asteroids.

The rocket will spend more than a decade exploring asteroids thought to date back to when the planets formed.

NASA launched a spacecraft called Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids for the first time on Saturday, gathering new insights into the solar system’s formation. The Atlas V rocket responsible for propelling the probe took off at 5:34 am local time (0934 GMT) from Cape Canaveral. Named after an ancient fossil […]

A spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids, seven of them in Jupiters orbit.

Lucy is named after the 3.2 million-year-old skeletal remains of a human ancestor found in Ethiopia nearly half a century ago.