It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

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

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

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The NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station in Chile first reported the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, on December 27, 2024. Within a few days it had risen to the ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December ... “I don’t see why it wouldn’t work” again, he said. The bigger question is whether major nations would fund such a mission ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named "2024 YR4", could cross Earth's trajectory in December 2032. With an estimated impact probability of 1.2%, this celestial body measuring 40 to 100 meters (130 to ...

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 at ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about half the width of a football field and will pass very close to Earth on December 22, 2032, coming within approximately 106,200 km Asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth object ...

Rare finding - Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27 ... "I don't see why it wouldn't work" again, he said. The bigger question is whether major nations would fund such a ...

Spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid - designated 2024 YR4 has a chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, said space agency officials in the US and Europe, who have ...