Lucy’s mission is to survey the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, a never-before-explored population of small bodies that orbit the Sun. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that its Lucy spacecraft made a close encounter with a small main belt asteroid on Sunday. RELATED: Stranded NASA Astronauts to Return Home Aboard Dragon Spacecraft The spacecraft […]

This planetary defense probe is on its way to visit the first asteroid whose orbit has been modified by human action. On Wednesday night, the planetary defense probe Hera captured images of the surface of Mars, as well as the face of Deimos, the smaller and more mysterious of the two Martian moons. RELATED: NASA […]