Asteroid Donaldjohanson (highlighted in the ... with the final flyby (of Patroclus and Menoetius, the two asteroids featured in the top image) in 2033. But thereafter, Lucy will stay in a stable ...

Within the next year, two other asteroids were found at Sun-Jupiter L points: The asteroid 624 Hektor was observed at L 4, and 617 Patroclus was discovered at Jupiter's L 5. Soon thereafter, the ...

This artist’s concept depicts the Lucy spacecraft flying past the Trojan asteroid (617) Patroclus and its binary companion Menoetius. Lucy will be the first mission to explore Jupiter’s Trojan ...

The chances has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, officials said. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...