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Asteroid 2025 OL1, about the size of a small plane, will safely pass Earth on July 30, 2025, at a distance of 1.29 million ...

The flyby of Dinkinesh is in addition to another main-belt asteroid, 52246 Donaldjohanson, that it will fly by in 2025. Lucy will then fly by several Trojan asteroids at Jupiter’s distance from ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has found a hidden asteroid "moon" swirling around the larger main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, affectionately known as Dinky. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The flyby will be used to test out the spacecraft’s system for locating an asteroid and locking its instruments onto its location as it flies past. This is important as when Lucy eventually ...

Dinkinesh, a small asteroid that NASA's Lucy mission visited last week, continues to surprise. Posted 11:30 a.m. Nov 8, 2023 - Updated 12:09 p.m. Nov 8, 2023 By Ashley Strickland , CNN ...

NASA’s Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles (960 kilometers) to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles (4 kilometers) in length but much shorter in width.

NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy spacecraft has adjusted course on its way to explore distant space rocks. Lucy's current trajectory will see the probe visit the tiny asteroid Dinkinesh in November 2023.

This photo provided by NASA shows a photo taken by the Lucy spacecraft during Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh, 300 million miles from Earth. It turns out Dinkinesh, which is ...