New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking ...
Asked what people should do if astronomers identified a “city-killer” asteroid on a collision course for the United States, ...
The once-dangerous ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 has been downgraded to almost zero risk after being originally estimated ...
Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a non-threat.
It was a meteoric rise. The odds that “city killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike our planet just increased again, hitting a ...
The American NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are actively monitoring the movement of the asteroid YR4, which has ...
Here are the five asteroids that pose the greatest risk ... At 0.81 miles (1.3 kilometers) wide, it is the second most dangerous asteroid known to NASA. Currently, the space rock has a 0.0029 ...
With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...
New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid with ...