Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Between Mars and Jupiter lies a vast cosmic junkyard of rocky debris – the Asteroid Belt. For centuries, this region was merely considered a failed planet or cosmic leftovers. However, modern ...

The data collected will help scientists understand the asteroid's size, shape, and composition ... 139 million miles from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Astronomers believe Donaldjohanson is a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in the main asteroid belt between ... asteroid's shape and size.

Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following the brief ... also in the main asteroid belt. The spacecraft discovered a mini moon around it.