NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope, which is the JWST is the largest and space telescope ever built, is expected to help NASA and ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | ...

JWST to measure asteroid 2024 YR4’s size for impact risk assessment Infrared data to improve accuracy over ground-based estimates Observations set for March and May, data to be publicly released ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the most detailed view of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

NASA first discovered “2024 YR4,” the 130-to-300-foot-wide asteroid, in December 2024, and found it only had roughly a 1 ...

Observations from the Very Large Telescope ... nor a metallic asteroid. The lack of an icy composition confirms that it does not behave like a comet, while its surface properties indicate it is not ...

Before the latest measurements made an impact on Earth seem less likely again, 2024 YR₄ broke a decades-old record.