Click for next articleAn adaptive optics image of the asteroid 44 Nysa taken with the Large Binocular Telescope. Scientists have found the first triple-lobed asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — and it has a small moon to boot. The asteroid in question is 44 Nysa, which was discovered all the way back in 1857. Those previous observations suggested Nysa might be bi-lobed, like many asteroids and comets such as asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson , which NASA's Lucy mission flew past in 2025. Furthermore, the images revealed a 0.6-mile-wide (1-km-wide) moon orbiting Nysa at a distance of at least 106 miles (170 km).