On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the sun, will skim Earth's atmosphere, passing only about 220 miles (360 kilometers) above the surface. This ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured an image (which has been cropped) of the Earth on Oct 15, 2022, as a part of an instrument calibration sequence at a distance of 380,000 miles (620,000 km). The upper ...

The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar system's origins. Reading time 2 minutes The asteroid hunting spacecraft Lucy ...

Mission engineers will track NASA’s Lucy spacecraft nonstop as it prepares to swoop near Earth on Oct. 16 to use this planet’s gravity to set itself on a course toward the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft left Earth behind this past April en route to the gas giant Jupiter and its enormous collection of moons. That won't happen for a few years, though. For ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are expected to return to Earth in March. Photo by MIguel J. Rodriguez CarrilloAFP via Getty Images March will bring both celestial and human ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured an image of the Earth on Oct 15, 2022, and an image of the Earth and the Moon on Oct. 13 as a part of an instrument calibration sequence. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft ...