Image of the asteroid 2024 YR4 taken by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). It shows a frame of the asteroid’s path through the night sky in January 2025, observed at infrared wavelengths with the ...
Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. Not many were known until ...
New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid with ...