NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

A recreation of Lucy's full skeleton at the new Hall of Human Origins at the National Museum of Natural History. Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution These 30,000 year-old shell beads found in ...

And in case you’ve been wondering, the asteroid Donaldjohanson is named after American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered the “Lucy” fossil skeleton in in Ethiopia in 1974 ...

This 150-million-year old space rock may look like a badly-shaped potato but studying it could help scientists understand how ...

TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — Fifty years ago, Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

The asteroid is named after the paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered the fossilised partial skeleton of the hominin named 'Lucy'. Focus: Space, exploration, asteroids +++ Update: NASA's ...

What was the crucial change that set us on the path to becoming human? Our big brains, with their capacity for language and making complex tools, set us apart from other animals. Our ability to ...