Daksh Malik, a Grade 9 student, has made an extraordinary achievement in the field of astronomy. His persistence and ...

A 14-year-old Noida boy has discovered an asteroid through a NASA programme and is now set to name it. Daksh Malik's preliminary detection, submitted last year, has been officially confirmed by ...

Daksh Malik discovers asteroid "2023 OG40" through NASA’s IADP Discovery after a year and a half of observations in asteroid search Daksh earns opportunity to name the asteroid after NASA verification ...

Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...

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An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla ...

Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended to reflect the characteristics of any specific known asteroid. ESA-Science Office Astronomers have made a startling discovery ...