Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave off armageddon in the future. Instead of stargazing with a traditional ...

of Wash. DiRAC Institute / OpenSpace Project) A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid ...

“There’s kind of a symbiosis that’s developed between meteorite hobbyists and hunters and scientists,” Fries tells Inverse. When meteorite falls are reported, hunters and collectors rush ...

Take Scout. It’s a software system by Nasa that uses asteroid hunters’ observations of near-Earth objects to work out approximately when and where they will impact the planet. One new asteroid ...

On Tuesday, those scientists, with the Asteroid Institute and the University of Washington, revealed an even bigger bounty: 27,500 newly identified solar system bodies. That is more than were ...

Asteroid hunters like Binzel have long fought to increase space surveillance enough to spot potentially dangerous asteroids. In that sense, the discovery of 2024 YR4 is a kind of victory.

It’s harder to do, but it turns up some gems It’s harder to do, but it turns up some gems For decades, the standard way to search for asteroids in our Solar System has been to scan the night ...

In an unprecedented leap in space research, scientists at the Asteroid Institute and the University of Washington have discovered 27,500 previously unidentified bodies within our solar system. A ...

Called Asteroid 2025 FA22, the space rock was placed at number three on the risk list by the agency for "possible impact" ...

Astronomers tracked the entry of a small space rock into Earth’s atmosphere, and then meteorite hunters made an unexpected discovery. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan wrote about ...

Scientists are asking meteorite hunters to refrain from using magnets to test the authenticity of their finds because this can destroy the specimen's magnetic memory, erasing valuable information ...

“Peter Jenniskens is the Indiana Jones of meteorite hunters,” said Fraknoi. Soon after 2008 TC3 fell to Earth, he flew to Sudan and joined University of Khartoum professor Muawia Shaddad and ...