The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of an object 9,000 light-years way known as IRAS 05506+2414. It "may be an ...

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I almost concluded it was an actual NEO and stopped looking, but I asked around on the Minor Planet Mailing List just to erase my final doubts" G told Astronomy. It was then that Jonathan McDowell ...

Estimating distances in astronomy is challenging. Think of how hard it is to estimate the distance of someone pointing a flashlight at you on a dark night. Galaxies come in a very wide range of ...

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officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according to Astronomy magazine. Its distance was closer ...

On Jan. 21, the company’s co-founder and CEO Matt Gialich told Astronomy that Astroforge had not yet settled on a target asteroid because “as a ride share customer, we don’t control our ...