Large and small asteroids are dangerous objects causing major damages to the earth.
Scientists have spotted a star called Gliese 710, which is hurtling towards our solar system at the rate of 32,000 mph. Right now, it is around 64 lightyears away. It is expected to be closest to Earth in 1.35 million years.
NASA has selected Lucy and Psyche discovery programs to further its space exploration programs. Both projects will study asteroids at different locations.
NEOWISE mission, a component of NASA's WISE project has detected two celestial objects en route to Earth's orbit. These will be visible in the first few months of 2017. One of these is a comet and the other is as of yet a possible comet without the dust and gas cloud.
Discovered by a sky watcher in Arizona early New Year's Day, the first asteroid sighted in 2014 plunged to Earth somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean about 25 hours later.
