Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
Astronomers recently discovered an asteroid hurdling towards ... realised this wasn’t a rogue space rock. Nope, it was that car. You know, the cherry-red Tesla that Elon Musk launched into ...
It's easy to feel pride when you're flying through space at 1000 metres per second. "Look at my spaceship go," you say to yourself, "look how fast it crashes into that other, smaller ship." Building ...
Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.
A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...
That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike ... and the U.N.’s Office for Outer Space Affairs. Despite that red alert, the space rock does not remotely pose an existential threat ...
The size estimate of the asteroid has changed very little since then, despite multiple observations using an array of telescopes, because the space rock can only be studied using the amount of ...