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This page showcases our resources for those interested in learning more about the Lucy Mission.

JPL's lucky peanuts are an unofficial tradition at big mission events.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will launch in October 2021 on a 12-year journey to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission will include three Earth gravity assists and visits to eight asteroids.

Set to launch next year, NASA’s Psyche mission marks the first time the agency has set out to explore an asteroid richer in metal than rock or ice.

DART's mission is to determine if flying a spacecraft into a small solar system body could be a reliable technique to deflect an asteroid.

Futuristic electric thrusters emitting a cool blue glow will guide the Psyche spacecraft through deep space to a metal-rich asteroid.

What's the next big thing? What might space missions in 2050 and beyond set out to discover?

Seven days after this historic milestone, a massive antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network Goldstone complex imaged another, far larger object.

As part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is well on its way to an August 2022 launch.

Models and lab tests suggest the asteroid could be venting sodium vapor as it orbits close to the Sun, explaining its increase in brightness.

The Next Full Moon is a Blue Moon, and is also known as the Hungry Ghost Moon.

Perched atop a stand in a high-ceilinged clean room, DART is beginning to look like the intrepid spacecraft that will aim itself directly into an asteroid.

NASA researchers used OSIRIS-REx spacecraft data to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu through 2300.

NASA's first spacecraft to explore the Trojan asteroids arrived July 30 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

When NASA’s DART spacecraft begins its final mission phase, it will see a 4-megapixel view of nothing but a few very dim dots of light.

The solar sailing CubeSat is one of several payloads hitching a ride on Artemis I, the first integrated flight of NASA's SLS and the Orion spacecraft.

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system.

NASA approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful review.

After nearly five years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu.

NASA's first asteroid sample return mission begins a two-year cruise home on May 10, 2021.

Nayi Castro serves as OSIRIS-REx mission operations manager or "MOM” for short. She shares her thoughts on OSIRIS-REx leaving Bennu.

Members of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office will participate in a “tabletop exercise” to simulate an asteroid impact scenario.

New images taken during OSIRIS-REx's final flyover on April 7, 2021, reveal the aftermath of the spacecraft's historic encounter with the asteroid.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx completed its last flyover of Bennu on April 7 and is now slowly drifting away from the asteroid;

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of both solar panels.