were inadvertently stashed away in a database meant for miscellaneous and unknown objects, according to the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center. An amateur astronomer noticed ...

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

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, 2024 YR4, has caught NASA’s attention due to a slight chance — just over 1% — of ...

The Minor Planet Center — which operates under the auspices ... traditionally in a format known as two-line elements (TLEs). These data are collated by the U.S. Space Force, which also performs ...

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

However the Minor Planet Center (MPC), which officially recognises such space ... “At the very least, we managed to filter out some non-minor-planet observations from the MPC database,” G said.

However the Minor Planet Center (MPC), which officially recognises ... we managed to filter out some non-minor-planet observations from the MPC database,” G said.

A photo of “Starman” and Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster shared by SpaceX in 2018. SpaceX via Getty Images On this day seven years ago, SpaceX launched the maiden flight of Falcon Heavy, a rocket ...

On Jan. 2, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) added a new object ... in Turkey using years of publicly available data, Astronomy.com reported. However, just 17 ...

But as astronomers gather more data on the future orbit of 2024 YR4 ... astronomers report the find to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a sort of public notice board for ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...