The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Updates on Asteroid 2024 YR4 have been slower during the full Moon, but experts say the precision of the object’s orbit is ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while ...

YR4 has reached the highest risk of impact yet, according to both NASA and the European Space Agency, with the agencies ...

Asteroid headed for Earth 'could hit Moon', astronomer says - The odds of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth have increased – ...

Very unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does There is a chance, albeit slim, that asteroid 2024 YR4 could ...

Should it hit the moon, it is most likely to land in the ... the future as scientists gather more information about the asteroid's orbit. The current estimates for 2024 YR4's orbital path, speed ...

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There's a small chance that the asteroid could collide with Moon. While scientists have doubled ... 2024 YR4 follows a highly elliptical, four-year orbit, swinging through the inner planets ...

That is when the asteroid is passing, really, through a part of the orbit of the Earth ... the entire Earth-Moon system — which is not to say that we don't know a lot about it.