Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory ... landed on the desk of Kelly Fast, acting planetary defense officer at US space agency NASA ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024 by El Sauce Observatory ... had landed on the desk of Kelly Fast, acting planetary defence officer at US space agency NASA ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on Dec. 27 last year by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is 40m to 90m wide. By New Year’s Eve, it ...

Boge noted that many astronomers and their families once called the minimalist space ... data night after night, year after year. “I couldn’t do it,” she laughed. At the observatory ...

The idea for the time-lapse originated from a request to create an educational tool that would help students understand Earth's movement.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Kamala Harris added her signature to the vice president’s desk drawer last week, a tradition since the 1960s. Bloomberg via Getty Images “It is not my nature to go quietly into the night.

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Monday, February 10, 2025: FLY, EAGLES FLY! Last night, the Philadelphia Eagles overwhelmingly secured a ...

European Space Agency and Nasa's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured the comet ... where the comet is moving into darker night skies. Comet G3 ATLAS reached a brightness ...

Leavitt worked at Harvard College Observatory ... night sky. Even today, Leavitt's period–luminosity relation is a key concept scientists use when measuring distances in the cosmos.. Breaking ...