Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

Daksh Malik, a young boy from Noida, India, recently discovered an asteroid through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, earning official recognition from NASA. This discovery highlights the ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

Asteroids vary in size, from 33 feet/10 meters to the largest known asteroid, Vesta, which has a ... livestream images of 2023 DZ2 through a 17-inch robotic telescope in Ceccano, Italy.

2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, and is projected to come close to Earth in December 2032. “Shortly after its discovery ...

detected by an international team of European astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope ... Asteroid Belt is tied-up in just four large objects—dwarf planets Ceres, Vesta ...

“But it deserves attention.” First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to 330 feet (40 to 100 ...

On Sunday, the asteroid will reach a peak brightness of magnitude 9.4, which is too faint for the naked eye but visible through entry-level binoculars or a backyard telescope, according to ...

Astronomers monitoring the ATLAS telescope at the University of Hawaii first spotted the asteroid as it was moving ... "In the past, even though it's passed through the inner solar system before ...