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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A size comparison of Dinkinesh (shown in blue) and other main asteroid belt objects Bennu and (2867) Steins. The first asteroid to ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is preparing for its first close-up look at an asteroid. On Nov. 1, it will fly by asteroid Dinkinesh and test its instruments in preparation for visits in the next decade to ...

The probe will conduct a close flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh on Wednesday to test its instruments as it steadily makes its way towards Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. Reading time 3 minutes After traveling ...

The spacecraft will visit the relatively tiny space rock Dinkinesh, situated between Mars and Jupiter, before heading off to the Trojan asteroids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair ...

When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft was sent past a small asteroid named Dinkinesh in November 2023, the team treated it mostly as a dress rehearsal. The flyby was added late in the mission planning to test ...

As NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past the asteroid Dinkinesh, its L’LORRI instrument produced stereographic images of the Nov. 1, 2023, encounter. The SwRI-led science team analyzed processed images, ...

New images captured by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft confirmed that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is a binary. This image shows the “moonrise” of Dinkinesh’s satellite. The SwRI-led mission will fly ...

The first asteroid to be visited by NASA’s Lucy mission now has a name. The International Astronomical Union has approved the name (152830) Dinkinesh for the tiny main belt asteroid that the Lucy ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The NASA Lucy ...