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An AI algorithm was able to spot a massive potentially hazardous asteroid, 2022 SF289, that humans had missed, showing the capabilities of this technology for planetary defense.

A skyscraper-size asteroid was revealed in year-old telescope data thanks to a new algorithm that could rock the way near-Earth objects are discovered.

The roughly 600-foot-long asteroid, designated 2022 SF289, was discovered during a test drive of the algorithm with the ATLAS survey in Hawaiʻi.

Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed space rocks, helping to detect objects that could one day imperil Earth.

Space is an important environment to preserve on behalf of professional astronomers, amateur stargazers, and Indigenous peoples, researchers argue.