In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

Astronomers are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2% chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. Scientists are ...

The asteroid has been given a rating of 3 out of 10, indicating a "close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers." ...

No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid ... Three hundred feet wide is about on par with the asteroid that exploded over Siberia in 1908 (also known as the 1908 Tunguska Event).

Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting ... asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia, according to the Planetary Society.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 2.3% chance of striking ... An object about the estimated size of 2024 YR4 hit the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908, and felled trees in an area of about ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 certainly does not pose an existential ... in 1908 and flattened trees across a vast region in Siberia. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a project of the National Science ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 was first spotted by the El Sauce ... by smaller Chelyabinsk Meteorite (66 foot diameter) that fell in Siberia, Russia that was still powerful enough to injure 1,500 people ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4 ... when a suspected asteroid or comet burst over Russia and flattened 2,150 square kilometers of remote Siberian forest. “We think YR4 is about the same size as the Tunguska ...