Danger close: ‘City-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 tops NASA’s threat risk list as odds of hitting Earth spikes in a month
NASA is continuously refining its tracking of 2024 YR4, using its network of telescopes, including the repurposed WISE Space ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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Citizen scientists discover object soaring out of the galaxy
The citizen scientists used data from NASA’s WISE telescope to discover the object, which is moving at about 1 millions miles per hour. That’s fast enough that it will be able to escape the ...
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A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece ...
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Alien weather report: James Webb Space Telescope detects hot, sandy wind on 2 brown dwarfs
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered stormy ... The two brown dwarfs form a binary pair called WISE 1049AB that was discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ...
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NASA gets $35 million to make sure asteroids don't destroy Earth
NASA's 8-year old wide-filed infrared survey explorer (WISE) telescope has used a similar approach to find at least 230 new near-earth objects. If a new object is detected, orbit intersection ...
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China announces its new flagship space telescope mission
All the great observatories set the stage for new generations of orbiting instruments, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, the European Space Agency's GAIA, NASA's WISE telescope, and now ...