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

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

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 ...

Dr Robin George Andrews has shared his thoughts on 'city destroying' asteroid 2024 YR4 which NASA believe has a small chance ...

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

It remains unlikely that Earth and asteroid 2024 YR4 will be at the same place ... out people's windows in 2013 proved. Every single day about 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles fall ...

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.

It came closest to Earth on Christmas Day, two days before it was first ... Discovery images of asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA The ESA said that the space rock "is small enough that ...

When I wrote about this the other day, the odds of an ugly encounter between that rock and ours had risen from 1.6 to 1.9 percent. They have now risen to 2.3 percent. Should the asteroid hit ...

A 90-metre-wide space rock passed Earth on Christmas Day 2024 and was detected ... The Christmas asteroid, known formally as 2024 YR4, is currently at the top of both Nasa and the European Space ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed.