"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

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

A former Fossil Ridge swimming star set a new school record for the storied Stanford program to win her first NCAA Division I ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Although NASA's Lucy spacecraft's upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

NASA's Lucy mission is named for the fossil. Lucy's principal investigator, Hal Levison, is based out of the Boulder, Colorado, branch of Southwest Research Institute, headquartered in San Antonio.

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

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

afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy." Our ancestor "Lucy," a young adult Australopithecus afarensis, became world-famous half a century ago after Donald Johanson and colleagues discovered ...