We love Lucy

Everything you need to know about NASA’s Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids.

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NASA’s Lucy mission: an odyssey to the Trojan asteroids

On October 16, NASA's Lucy spacecraft is expected to depart for the Trojan asteroids — rocky bodies that share an orbit with Jupiter.

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The Cost of NASA's Psyche Mission to a Metallic Asteroid

The Psyche mission will cost approximately $961 million over 12 years. But that's not the whole story.

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The Cost of the Lucy Mission to the Trojan Asteroids

The Lucy spacecraft will cost approximately $989 million over 16 years. But that's not the whole story.

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Some good old-fashioned space mysteries

Exploration is teaching us a lot about the cosmos, and a lot about how much we still don’t know.

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The shape of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is changing. Here’s why.

A new study says the winds within the famous Great Red Spot are speeding up in some places and slowing down in others.

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Rocky worlds rock

This week we're all about the rocky planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

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EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus

The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching the EnVision spacecraft to study Venus and its past.

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Supereruptions and psychedelia

The surface of Mars can teach us about its history and, with the right imaging techniques, conjure flashbacks of 60s psychedelia.

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Mars Express, studying Mars from orbit

Mars Express was the European Space Agency’s first planetary mission when it launched in 2003.

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