On November 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will visit its first asteroid, Dinkinesh. Their meeting will be a critical, ultra-brief encounter between two of the loneliest drifters in the Solar System.

Lucy has already been flying through space for two years. The mission, designed to take a grand tour of the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter, will perform ultra-fast flybys to accomplish its epic survey of nine rocks strewn across space. Although it's a 12-year mission, Lucy's principal investigator Hal Levison tells Inverse that all the important science it will take adds up to just 24 hours.

Google's Pixel Watch 2 is indeed a better smartwatch than the original Pixel Watch, which was very much a first-gen product.

The Pixel Watch 2 is lighter; Wear OS 4 is more responsive; the battery life lasts almost exactly 24 hours on a single charge with the always-on display; the new multi-path heart rate sensor is more accurate.

Sounds like an easy purchase if you use an Android phone, right? Google Pixel owners finally have a competent Apple Watch to match, yeah? Not exactly.