NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space ...

Hal Levison, principal investigator for Lucy at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said: “Asteroid ...

NASA says the asteroid Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago. The post NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures first ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...

Scientists have flown a spacecraft by an "odd" 5-mile-long asteroid. NASA’s Lucy space probe passed approximately 600 miles ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer ...

Scientists have flown a spacecraft by an "odd" 5-mile-long asteroid.

Over time, this constant pull causes the planet to take on a spherical shape. The more mass a planet has, the stronger its gravitational force becomes, helping to pull everything into a more ...

"However, the team was surprised by the odd shape of the narrow neck connecting ... blocks and collisional processes that formed the planets in our Solar System." NASA’s Lucy mission is a ...