A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

Astronomers have captured a new image of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 1 in 48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

"We took 12 200-second long exposures in the Red band and tracked the motion of the asteroid to obtain these images," Bolin explained. "The observations were difficult for three reasons.

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4 ...

The images in the animation were captured by an ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on Christmas Day 2024, when the asteroid had “a close approach with Earth,” becoming bright enough to be ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, measuring 180 feet wide, has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032, according to scientists. A smaller 0.3% risk of the asteroid colliding with the moon has also ...

China has started assembling a planetary defence team to counter the threat of near-Earth asteroids following the discovery of a large asteroid that could strike our planet in seven years.

SCIENTISTS ARE TURNING TO THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE TO TRACK AN ASTEROID THAT THEY SAY COULD BE HEADED STRAIGHT FOR EARTH WITHIN THE NEXT DECADE. WE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT THIS, RIGHT? NASA SAYS ...

That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike our planet. Cosmic bookmakers don’t make an impact terribly likely—but the risk is on the rise. According to NASA’s Center for Near ...