Telescope Studying Asteroids

NASA plans to complete its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) test in October, and the US space agence recently completed an observation campaign to confirm the orbit of the target asteroid, using powerful telescopes to verify the orbit ahead of the impact later this year. NASA wants to attempt to modify the course of the Dimorphos asteroid, a...

A new study reveals that new surveys are increasingly detecting new Near-Earth objects, including asteroids, that were previously hidden due to the glare of the Sun. These telescopic surveys are braving the Sun’s glare and searching for asteroids toward the Sun during twilight, unlike previous surveys that had a 'blind spot' for these celestial o...

Cycle 4 is a one-year-long observing period in which the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is scheduled for 106 flights.

NASA's "flying" telescope aboard a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner has begun its fourth series of flights to map planets, asteroids, stars, galaxies and more.

As earthlings in the US get ready to don Halloween costumes on October 31, asteroid 2015 TB145, dubbed the 'Great Pumpkin' in a reference to the holiday, will fly past the planet at a safe distance, NASA said.

NASA plans to complete its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) test in October, and the US space agence recently completed an observation campaign to confirm the orbit of the target asteroid, using powerful telescopes to verify the orbit ahead of the impact later this year. NASA wants to attempt to modify the course of the Dimorphos asteroid, a...

A new study reveals that new surveys are increasingly detecting new Near-Earth objects, including asteroids, that were previously hidden due to the glare of the Sun. These telescopic surveys are braving the Sun’s glare and searching for asteroids toward the Sun during twilight, unlike previous surveys that had a 'blind spot' for these celestial o...

Cycle 4 is a one-year-long observing period in which the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is scheduled for 106 flights.

NASA's "flying" telescope aboard a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner has begun its fourth series of flights to map planets, asteroids, stars, galaxies and more.

As earthlings in the US get ready to don Halloween costumes on October 31, asteroid 2015 TB145, dubbed the 'Great Pumpkin' in a reference to the holiday, will fly past the planet at a safe distance, NASA said.