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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets first images of 'strikingly complicated' asteroid that will shed light on early solar system

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Lucy spacecraft's long-range reconnaissance imager captured ...
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'Right now, we are in what has to be a Golden Age of asteroid exploration.' Scientists celebrate NASA's latest space rock flyby

BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson. Here at ...
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Donaldjohanson asteroid captured by NASA's Lucy space probe in incredible cosmic images

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured incredible images of a fragment of what is known as the Donaldjohanson asteroid. Donaldjohanson, which formed about 150 million years ago, has been described as ...