Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they’re the ...

Independent scientists are also weighing in on the onoing hot discussion about asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a little over 2% ...

YR4 is circling Earth and NASA predicts it could strike the planet in 2032. Here's what to know about the asteroid headed toward Earth.

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between 40 and ... a scientist at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is a higher impact risk to our ...

Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before ... giving it the highest probability of impact of any other large objects being tracked by NASA and other space ...

What do we know about 2024 YR4? And what would happen if it did collide ... capacity to deflect potentially threatening asteroids. NASA’s DART mission (the Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

Detected by an automated telescope in Chile on December 27, 2024, 2024 YR4 has quickly risen to the top of impact risk lists maintained by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). The asteroid’s size ...

Related stories That's what NASA expects for 2024 YR4, saying it will probably rule out the possibility of impact by April. April is the cutoff point because, after that, the asteroid will be too ...