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As astronomers discovered asteroids hiding in Jupiter’s Lagrange points, they began referring to them as “Trojan asteroids.”

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

The next full Moon will be early Saturday morning, Feb. 27 at 3:17 AM EST. The Moon will appear full from Thursday night through Sunday morning.

DART will still arrive at Didymos within a few days of the originally scheduled impact date of Sept. 30, 2022.

With less than a year to launch, NASA’s Lucy mission’s third and final scientific instrument has been integrated onto the spacecraft.

A months-long integration and testing phase culminated with a successful review and the start of space-environment testing for DART.

Before departing for Earth on May 10, OSIRIS-REx will perform a final flyby of Bennu – capturing its last images of sample collection site Nightingale.

Now just a year and a half from launch, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid will soon begin assembling and testing the spacecraft.

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On May 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will say farewell to asteroid Bennu and begin its journey back to Earth.

NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L’TES – the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer – has been integrated into the spacecraft.

Japan's Hayabusa2 has dropped a capsule to the ground in the Australian Outback containing dust the spacecraft collected from asteroid Ryugu.

Scientists have confirmed that Near-Earth Object 2020 SO is a 1960’s-Era Centaur rocket booster.

Before NASA's Lucy mission can begin its long journey to the Trojan asteroids, a camera had to take a 1,500-mile journey.

OSIRIS-REx has successfully stowed its Sample Return Capsule filled with an abundant sample of asteroid Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx has successfully placed its sample collector head – filled with dust and debris from asteroid Bennu – into the Sample Return Capsule.

The next full Moon will be on the morning of Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, The Moon will appear full for about three days, making this a full Moon weekend.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is ready to perform an early stow on Tuesday, Oct. 27, of the large sample it collected from the surface of asteroid Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx mission team confirmed the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements – acquiring at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of the asteroid’s surface material.

This series of images shows the OSIRIS-REX SamCam imager’s field of view as the spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface.

OSIRIS-REx unfurled its robotic arm, and in a first for NASA, briefly touched an asteroid to collect a sample.

OSIRIS-REx is working to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu and NASA also has several other asteroid missions coming up.

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will take a sample of asteroid Bennu on October 20. Here are 10 things to know about Bennu.

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be collecting in just a few weeks.

The next full Moon will be on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 1, 2020. The Moon will appear full from Wednesday morning through Saturday morning.