The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.
The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.
University of Hawaii astronomers are playing a pivotal role in tracking an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth.
The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...
The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...
Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...
Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.