UH Telescopes Tracking Asteroid That Could Strike Earth in 2032
Artist rendering of an asteroid nearing Earth. Credit: Kevin M. Gill UH-operated telescopes on Maunakea and Haleakalā are actively tracking an asteroid that could potentially strike Earth in 2032. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was discovered by a UH telescope in...
Hawaiʻi Telescopes Help Confirm Success of NASA Planetary Defense Test
Above: A trail of debris scatters in the wake of asteroid moonlet Didymos after NASA’s DART spacecraft pummeled it surface. Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in late September made history by using a spacecraft to...