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World

Seven-year-old Brazilian girl discovers 7 asteroids for NASA, becomes world's youngest astronomer

Nicole Oliveira has been honoured by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration for her inputs in asteroid searches.

India

Arya Pulate, Shreya Waghmare, students of a school in Pune, discover 6 new preliminary asteroids

The students, Arya Pulate and Shreya Waghmare, were trained to analyse data and spot potential asteroids close to Earth.

India

Teens from Surat spot Earth-bound asteroid HLV2514 in telescope images; IASC verifies discovery

The 14-year-olds discovered the asteroid during the two-month-long nationwide ‘All India Asteroid Search Campaign 2020’ organised by SPACE India and IASC.

News & Analysis

Class XII boys discover new asteroid

At first sight, Shubham Sharma and Mayank Sharma seem like regular Class XII students to you, but their ...