The evolution of the asteroid 2024 YR4 is being closely monitored ... but then this possibility was completely ruled out." Another question that is up in the air is about the damage it could ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

The notification is meant to put the astronomical community on alert to collect as much information as possible on the near-Earth object (NEO) in question ... for 2024 YR4, their odds of an ...

What gets to the intersection first? That’s effectively the question astronomers are trying to answer about asteroid 2024 YR4 as it barrels through space toward Earth. “We don’t really know how big it ...

2024 YR4's trajectory needs to be refined. (Artist's impression of an asteroid. Elements of this ... [+] image furnished by NASA). Feb 7, 2024: the size of 2024 YR4 was mistakenly said to be the ...

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.

However, it would be an exaggeration to suggest that the space rock in question threatens a climatic catastrophe for the future of civilisation as we know it. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has earned a spot ...

However, 2024 YR4 triggered the alarm at ATLAS because there’s a not-insignificant chance that the asteroid, which is about the size of the Eiffel Tower, may slam into Earth in 2032. At the time ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry. By Robin George Andrews Robin George ...

Scientists are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid — 2024 YR4 — whose chances of hitting Earth just before Christmas in 2032 are rising. The asteroid 2024 YR4 was first spotted by the ...

Our current best guess is that this object, called 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-43 chance of striking in 2032, the highest risk of any known asteroid. But what does that number really mean, and when ...