NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured the first-ever view of asteroid Donaldjohanson. It was reported by NASA the spacecraft’s ...

NASA's Lucy mission captured the highest resolution image yet of Donaldjohanson, the uniquely shaped asteroid.

While Donaldjohanson isn't considered a Trojan asteroid, the flyby provided a "dress rehearsal" for the Lucy mission before heading toward Jupiter to study the Trojan asteroids farther away from ...

Donaldjohanson is located in the inner regions of Solar System’s main asteroid belt. This asteroid was first discovered on March 2, 1981, by the American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring ...

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape.

Donaldjohanson is not the first unusually shaped asteroid to cross paths with a NASA spacecraft. The Kuiper Belt Object 486958, known as Arrokoth, also features a distinctive double-lobed form, which ...

NASA has released the first full image of the Donaldjohanson asteroid nearly three months after the Lucy spacecraft completed its second flyby. The pictures were taken by the probe's L'LORRI imager a ...

On April 20, Lucy zoomed past Donaldjohanson at incredible speed. The spacecraft captured a series of close-up images using its L’LORRI imager just before the flyby.

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Asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy spacecraft from a range of about 1,700 miles (2,700 km), about 3.2 minutes before closest approach on April 20, 2025. This is the highest resolution ...

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Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft’s April 20 encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson.