The first look at the Dinkinesh asteroid revealed a surprise: The small space rock had its own moon. Now as the Lucy spacecraft downlinked more images of its first target, it showed not one but two tiny asteroids orbiting around Dinkinesh. The New M3-Powered iMacs Are Triggering Serious Deja Vu NASA’s Lucy mission made a … Read more
The Lucy spacecraft is on a 12-year journey to visit eight different asteroids, and it’s almost caught up with the first space rock on its checklist. Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023 Since it launched in October 2021, NASA’s Lucy mission has trekked through over 33 million miles (54 … Read more
A NASA spacecraft is about to embark on a 2.2 billion mile journey through space to reach a rare, metal-rich asteroid beyond the orbit of Mars. Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View The Psyche mission is set to launch on Thursday at 10:16 a.m. ET, if weather conditions permit; the … Read more
Wedged between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the main asteroid belt contains over 1 million rocky objects, but perhaps few of them are as intriguing as Psyche. The metal-rich asteroid might have once been an ancient planetary building block that was stripped of its outer rocky shell as our solar system came to be. … Read more