YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...

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

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the threat once posed by Apophis.

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, dubbed ATLAS, came across the space rock while observing the ...

Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The asteroid Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small potential of entering the earth's atmosphere on December 22, 2032 and scientists ...