YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
The rock tour has officially been canceled. After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth ...
An asteroid may be heading toward Earth for a 2032 date, but don't worry — it's not looking to crash the party yet. NASA is closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4, which could potentially strike ...
YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
There’s a more than 1% chance the asteroid will make its way toward Earth and crash-land on the planet in December 2032. But scientists say they expect the asteroid’s future trajectory and ...
At the end of 2024, a NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted 2024 YR4, and a month later scientists concluded there was a more than 1% chance the asteroid would crash into ...
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.
February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...