YR4 has a very small chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032- but one that has increased slightly since it was first spotted. The latest impact probability is available on the automated Sentry page ...

NASA has been changing the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in recent days, but the latest shift significantly ...

The launch of the Blue Ghost module, scheduled to land on the moon early next month, is a key step in creating an Earth–moon ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.

NASA has been revising the odds of an asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032, with recent estimates increasing the chance to 3.1 ...

Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and professor at MIT. Binzel and his team have been following asteroid 2024 YR4 for months. It was first identified by NASA late last year and has been ...

The risk that the asteroid 2024 YR4 hits Earth has risen to the highest level scientists have ever recorded - now computers ...

While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder ...

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SpaceX/Getty Images ... Earth. So as far as astronomers are concerned, it’s just a hefty piece of space junk. Still, mistaking a spacecraft or human-made object for an asteroid is troublesome ...