How to watch NASA’s asteroid explorer Lucy launch this week
This week, NASA is launching its newest explorer: Lucy, a spacecraft that will travel to the asteroids near Jupiter. Here’s how to watch the launch live.
NASA’s Lucy mission will soon be heading out to investigate Trojan asteroids
A NASA mission will soon be blasting off to study the Trojans, a lesser-studied group of asteroids in the outer solar system.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft unfurls its solar panels ahead of launch
Later this year, a NASA spacecraft named Lucy will launch on a 12-year mission to visit the asteroid belt. Lucy recently unfurled its solar panels in a test.