We don’t know why they ran, but thanks to new analysis of Lucy, the name for the collection of 3.2-million-year-old australopithecine bones first found in Ethiopia in 1974, we now know how they ran.

“Lucy is one of the first celebrity fossils. Everyone knows, and loves, Lucy,” says science historian Lydia Pyne. In fact, the world knew the skeleton and the species it represented as “Lucy ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in ...

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This illustration shows the trajectory of NASA's Lucy mission, which is led by Southwest Research Institute. The Lucy spacecraft will launch in 2021 and initially fly by the main belt asteroid ...

Lucy Hawking, daughter of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, tells us what it was like to write with her dad, why a pig featured in their books, and why she was banned from writing about aliens!

This image shows the “moonrise” of the satellite as it emerges from behind asteroid Dinkinesh as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI), one of the most detailed images ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently obtained its first clear images of the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, which is now within its line of sight. Lucy captured these images while it was 45 ...