New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

YR4 was originally calculated to have a 3.1% probability of impacting our planet on December 22, 2032. The post Asteroid that ...

Scientists at NASA and around the world have been closely following a near-Earth asteroid ... YR4 would hit the Moon's surface at full speed since it doesn't have an atmosphere, exploding with ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an impact likelihood of about 3%, additional data was ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

The astronomers told us this was the most likely outcome: a "city killer" asteroid that once had ... that the probability that 2024 YR4 would hit the Earth would probably go up and then at some ...

“The probability of an asteroid hitting Earth is low, but the consequences ... witnessed an asteroid exploding in the atmosphere. If an asteroid landed on the ocean, the destruction wouldn ...

Since December, Moskovitz had the Lowell Discovery Telescope trained on the 2024 YR4 asteroid. Scientists at one point projected it had about a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. 2024 YR4 is now ...

Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4 ... utilize to assess the threats posed by near-Earth objects on a scale of 0 (no threat) to 10 (will definitely hit Earth and destroy all life).

The astronomers told us this was the most likely outcome: a "city killer" asteroid that ... and track potential Earth impactors — issued a notification alerting the astronomical community that it had ...