Recent highlights
NASA's Lucy mission flew past the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson in April 2025, revealing the asteroid's strange shape with two cratered lobes separated by a relatively smooth neck.
NASA's JWST Infrared Space Telescope has been making spectacular observations from Earth's L2 Lagrange point.
The Astrophysical Materials Laboratory at Northern Arizona University has been cranking out results. Here's a recent example showing how freezing volatile liquid mixtures can produce outbursts.
Looking ahead...
Lucy is en route to explore Jupiter's swarms of Trojan asteroids starting in 2027. This is a class of objects never before seen up close, so all sorts of surprises are in store.
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