The space rock that once posed the greatest risk of impact to Earth in recorded history now has a near zero chance of ...
The Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the presumed asteroid on January 2 - even giving it an official name of 2018 CN41. However just hours later 17 hours later, astronomers issued an ...
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) seemingly mistook billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. TSLA Roadster for a small body in space earlier this month, much to the fascination of the billionaire.
Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...
However less than 24 hours later, it was deleted from records by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), which officially recognises such space rocks, as it turned out the 'asteroid' was not actually that.
Nearly seven years later, on Jan. 2, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid designated 2018 CN41. The MPC said the asteroid was ...
A large asteroid could pass close enough to Earth within the next decade that there's a chance it could strike the planet ... Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center, which determined it had ...
Could an asteroid hit Earth in 2032? NASA now says no. We asked two experts to break it down, and shed some light on how much ...