A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid discovery candidates — not by making fresh observations of the night sky, but by sifting through archives of astronomical data. The weeks-long database search was conducted by the Asteroid Institute, a program of the nonprofit B612 Foundation, in partnership with UW’s DiRAC Institute and Google Cloud. The two institutes developed a program called THOR,
AI or artificial intelligence is being used extensively around the world. Now, scientists have found an asteroid with the help of an AI algorithm program.
These cosmic vagabonds, all belonging to the Amor group of near-Earth objects, gave us a celestial spectacle without posing any hazard to our humble abode., Technology & Science News, Times Now
Kunchala Kaivalya Reddy, a class 10 student from Nidadavolu in West Godavari has created yet another record. A planet fragment was discovered in an important asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It was discovered in a worldwide campaign conducted under the International Astronomical Search Collaboration, a NASA recognised body. She was awarded a certificate by