Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 16 October 2021, Lucy is Nasa’s first mission to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter. The asteroids are large populations of space rocks that ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured an image (which has been cropped) of the Earth on Oct 15, 2022, as a part of an instrument calibration sequence at a distance of 380,000 miles (620,000 km).

The oldest known skeleton of our species Homo sapiens is about 300,000 years old. But there was a time when humans didn’t exist at all and the world was covered in nothing but slime.