NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width. Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following ...

Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to help us understand these space rocks.

The asteroid still has a 1.7% chance of crashing into the moon on Dec. 22, 2032. NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

The asteroid follows an orbit around the sun similar to Earth’s. The probe will fly past the asteroid at a distance of 0.6 miles, using two black-and-white cameras to snap pictures.

Asteroid YR4's chances of impact now surpass the odds that Apophis once had of colliding with Earth when it was first discovered in 2004. Where might Asteroid 2024 YR4 strike Earth? Estimations on ...

NASA has downgraded the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 1.5 per cent, or 1-in-67, down from a high of a 1-in-32 chance, which was the highest odds yet of collision. Astronomers ...

It’s rare to find an asteroid with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth: out of more than 37,000 near-Earth asteroids that have been discovered, 2024 YR4 is the only one with more than a 1 in ...

The asteroid measures between 130 and 300 feet wide (40 to 90 meters), based on estimates from its reflected light. It’s currently moving away from Earth at 8.24 miles per second (13.26 ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4, as seen by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in January 2025, shortly after the object was discovered in December 2024. As of January 29 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, NASA reports. Astronomers all over the world are watching the asteroid, trying to narrow down its future path.

Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.19725 A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO 14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn.

A building-sized asteroid will coincidentally fly by Earth during September’s supermoon and partial lunar eclipse early Wednesday morning, offering a celestial show full of events, and NASA is ...