YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid observed by NASA using the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico ... The assessment or risk continued to escalate through January 29 — that’s when the ...

Using a state-of-the-art asteroid alert system, local astronomers helped capture and study the historic moment that a school bus-sized spacecraft purposely crashed head-on into a non-threatening ...