In 2029, one of the solar system's many asteroids will pass Earth close enough to see with the naked eye. But asteroid Apophis won't travel the same path again.
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
A Noida boy - Daksh Malik, who is a student at Shiv Nadar School, has always been fascinated by space. He had been fond of astronomy since a very young age. From watching National Geographic documentaries about planets and the solar system to staring up at the stars,
A Noida teenager, Daksh Malik, has made headlines after discovering an asteroid through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, earning the chance to name it. His journey into astronomy began with a school email,
A 14-year-old from Noida is making astronomical strides. Daksh Malik, a Class 9 student at Shiv Nadar School, has discovered an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Astronomers were left less than impressed when they uncovered the truth about an asteroid they'd been keeping an eye on. On January 2, scientists at the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced they had discovered an unusual asteroid.
Daksh Malik, a 14-year-old from Noida, discovered an asteroid via IAPD. NASA confirms, granting him the honor of naming the celestial body.
NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, in 2025. One key event for Lucy is its flyby of the inner main-belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, scheduled for April 20, 2025.
Scientists mistook Elon Musk's Tesla roadster for an asteroid in a debacle that highlights the problem of tracking near-Earth objects.
Through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, Daksh Malik successfully discovered asteroid 2023 OG40 in the main asteroid belt of the solar system.
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much fanfare in 2018 as part of a publicity stunt during the maiden flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket. The car, complete with a mannequin named “Starman” in the driver’s seat, had been orbiting the Sun ever since.