NASA is continuously refining its tracking of 2024 YR4, using its network of telescopes, including the repurposed WISE Space ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
Launched in 2009 as WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ... NASA extended the mission under the name NEOWISE until 2011 ...
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 ...
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 ...