The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger remains low, but experts are estimating the damage that could be done.
Updates on Asteroid 2024 YR4 have been slower during the full Moon, but experts say the precision of the object’s orbit is ...
The asteroid is rated at a 3 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, a tool used for categorizing potential impacts. That means ...
NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...
The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth have gone up in the past few days, leading both NASA and the European ...
Samples from the asteroid Bennu ... of "left-handed" forms on Earth remain poorly understood. This mystery opens new avenues for exploring the origins of life and its possible variations elsewhere in ...
YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency.
It was initially believed the asteroid, first detected on December 27, had about a 1 percent chance of colliding with Earth, ...
The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight ... this will also happen with asteroid 2024 YR4. “We expect the impact probability to go to zero rather than 100 percent ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.