When NASA scientists caught a glimpse of the first images taken by the instruments aboard the Lucy spacecraft of the asteroid ... How Dinky’s unusual dual moon system formed is still a mystery ...

Astronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew by an asteroid named Dinkinesh ... that touch each other — orbiting the asteroid like a moon. It was the first time a contact ...

An asteroid floating in our solar system has been discovered to have a very weird and unique double moon—and it might just change the way we think about how planets form. The asteroid ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, during its flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh ... into the internal structure and evolutionary history of Dinky and Selam. According to Professor Jessica Sunshine of the ...

Lucy’s latest asteroid encounter took place roughly 16 months after passing within 230 miles of Dinkinesh (aka “Dinky”) and its “baby asteroid” satellite, Selam. Donaldjohanson is the ...

says MIT astrophysicist Richard Binzel —NASA flyby of "Dinky" asteroid reveals hidden moon —A chunk of the moon appears to be orbiting near Earth, new study suggests According to the new study ...

By studying Earth-like orbiting objects with moon-like spectral signatures, scientists could determine what proportion come from the moon versus the asteroid belt, potentially improving our ...