NASA's Lucy spacecraft skimmed Earth's atmosphere early Saturday morning, flying lower than the International Space Station. The mission launched exactly a year ago.

Lucy’s flyby came on the one-year anniversary of its launch, the first high-speed close encounter of a planned 12-year mission to visit the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

NASA's Lucy asteroid mission is celebrating the first anniversary of its launch from Earth by zipping closer to the planet than the International Space Station's orbit.

This second Earth gravity assist occurs three years into the Lucy spacecraft's 12-year voyage. Its first gravity assist on Oct. 16, 2022, one year after launch, boosted the spacecraft from an ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

NASA’s Lucy mission flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh this week, and the images it captured revealed not one but two space rocks.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured an image of the Earth on Oct 15, 2022, and an image of the Earth and the Moon on Oct. 13 as a part of an instrument calibration sequence.

Thanks to a powerful engine burn on Feb. 3, NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy spacecraft is on its way back to Earth for a Christmas-time rendezvous this year.

NASA confirmed that the spacecraft successfully completed the first asteroid flyby of its 12-year mission.