A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA's Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter's moon Europa. SpaceX ...

They confirmed it is one of only two of what are called Trojan asteroids travelling as a companion with Earth. Trojan asteroids can be wanderers in the solar system – as appears to be the case ...

The original plan for OKEANOS was to launch a sample return mission to one of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids that sit in the Lagrange points in front of and behind Jupiter and its orbital path.

"The trojan asteroids lead or follow Jupiter in its orbit by about 60 degrees," explained Hal Levison, Lucy's principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder ...

NASA's Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun, in 2025. One key event for Lucy is its flyby of the inner main ...

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, has captured a stunning image of Earth, along with a photo of the Earth and the Moon, as part of gravity assist to ...

The increasing demand for low-thrust orbits and gravity-assist sequences plays a special role. Typical targets of such missions are comets, near earth objects, Trojan asteroids, but also for missions ...

A few of these new asteroids may eventually migrate into Earth's neighborhood, becoming near-Earth objects, while one is likely a Trojan asteroid that shares Jupiter's orbit. “We thought we ...

The #LucyMission will perform its 2nd Earth-gravity assist on Dec. 12, putting it on a new course toward its first Trojan asteroid encounter in 2027. On the way, Lucy will pass through the main ...

These points have earned their name "Trojans," inspired by Homer's epic. Hundreds of Trojan Asteroids orbit Jupiter and Mars, and even Saturn's moons engage in this cosmic dance. Imagine ...