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,
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There were many asteroids detected, and researchers are getting cautious. Many hidden asteroids got detected thanks to a study conducted by researchers that used old telescope data that saw these space rocks floating around the vast space.