The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids is currently cruising through the Asteroid Belt, and will fly close to asteroid Donaldjohanson in April.

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from ... the Australopithecus afarensis known as Lucy, who lived around 3.2 million years ago. By ...

This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil ... Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet in height and ...

Donaldjohanson has a direct link to the Lucy spacecraft's name. Donald Johanson is a paleoanthropologist who discovered parts of a fossilized skeleton of an ancestor of homo sapiens', an ...