CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

The coffin containing the body of Pope Francis has been transferred from Casa Santa Marta to St. Peter's Basilica. In Europe, ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of ...

Easter Sunday certainly hasn't been a day of rest for the astronomy community. All eyes are on NASA's asteroid-studying Lucy spacecraft, which should have had a close space rock encounter at 1:51 ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s got its first views of the asteroid Donaldjohanson in February 2025. NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL The Lucy mission is on a 12-year ...