“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on top of a bluff, and the reason that bluff is there, it's part of the ...

Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet ... Photograph by NASA/Science Photo Library Asteroids often rotate, with ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially ... a NASA astronomer involved in the photo-op, told Space.com of the ...

2024 YR4 will disappear from view for a while after that, and astronomers will take time to interpret the telescope's data and determine what it could mean for the asteroid's route before it shows ...

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

CHILLING new telescope photos of the "city killer" asteroid ... The striking new images of asteroid YR4 2024 were captured by a space telescope in Chile on February 7, and show it in the most ...

The asteroid everyone was worried about won't hit Earth. Better news: Folks working in Baltimore will help us learn more ...

The amount of light reflected by the asteroid's surface is used to estimate how big it is.However, the Webb telescope, slated to begin observations of 2024 YR4 in early March, sees the universe in ...