Imagine Lucy, our famous ancestor from more than 3 million years ago, not just strolling around ancient plains but possibly handling tools like a prehistoric pro. New research on australopithecine hand bones is flipping the script on early tool use, ...
NASA’s latest spacecraft, dubbed Lucy, will pass by Earth on its way to the distant Jupiter Trojan asteroids, passing only a few hundred miles away from us. According to NASA, some fortunate viewers may be able to see Lucy from ...
NASA’s Lucy mission aims to explore lots of Trojan asteroids, meaning that there’s a lot of astronomical work to do. The cosmic journey will last for 12 years, meaning that there’s a lot of time available for gathering precious information. ...
Spaceships have explored most of the nooks of the solar system already, but the two clusters of asteroids flank powerfully Jupiter in its orbit will be under robotic investigation for a new zone. However, in these two swarms astronomers saw numerous ...