An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

At the end of November, NASA’s next great telescope — the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — officially finished construction. Teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland joined the inner ...

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An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway. If the name of the asteroid sounds ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 will come perilously close to the Earth, and may even hit the ...

The Subaru Telescope, operated from Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, has provided crucial new data confirming that the ...

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NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of striking Earth in 2032. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

The most powerful space telescope ever built is peering into some of the deepest realms of the universe. It will also now peer at a big asteroid that has low but still concerning odds — around 2 ...