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.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon travel by asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed roughly 150 million years ago.

NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...

“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 ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson, Lucy is special because she lived so long ago (3.2 millions years) and because almost half of her skeleton was found. (Most fossil finds are just fragments ...

Lucy's unwavering belief in the transformative power of science drives her to create exceptional content that educates, inspires, and entertains across multiple media platforms.

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...

An artist's concept of the the Lucy spacecraft flying past the Trojan asteroids Patroclus and Menoetius. Illustration: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez ...

Lucy is the 13th mission in NASA's Discovery Program. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Discovery Program for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA ...

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!