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Space · 22 Oct 2026NASA's Lucy mission nears Jupiter's Trojan asteroids after five years of discoveries

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, launched in October 2021, is less than a year from its first encounter with the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter, having already made several notable discoveries during its journey, including a contact-binary moon and a peanut-shaped asteroid in the main belt.