The asteroid was first observed on October 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii.

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...

Brilliant Jupiter rises at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and by twilight on Nov. 30. It can be found in the constellation Taurus at ...

China’s Tsuchinshan (or “Purple Mountain”) Observatory and an ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in South Africa documented it for the first time in history as ...

Officially named C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), the comet was discovered in September by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert ...

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On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

ATLAS stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. The main difference between this comet and the prior one is their distance from the sun. Last week's comet passed about halfway ...

Images) First discovered by China’s Purple Mountain Observatory and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in January and February 2023, respectively, comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

Comet ATLAS was first detected on September 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Hawaii.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, or C/2023 A3, was first detected in January 2023 by the Tsuchinshan Observatory in China and an an ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in South ...