A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly ... all eight billion of us will remain protected for generations to come.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will come close to Earth in late 2032, but we won't have to make any doomsday preparations. It's expected to pass safely by. The asteroid was first reported by the Minor Planet ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

They pointed out that, even though 2024 YR4 likely won't strike Earth, it will come close on a regular basis. This makes it an excellent target for future asteroid missions. The asteroid will make ...

The rating meant that the asteroid merited astronomers’ attention ... understanding 2024 YR4’s orbit and how close it will come to Earth in the future, he said. Astronomers are at the ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest ... maintains a comprehensive database of asteroids that come within 4.6 million miles of the Earth—a range that is roughly ...

Since its discovery, the asteroid's probability of ... monitor and track over 37,000 near Earth asteroids (NEAs). These NEAs are those that come within 1.3 astronomical units distance of Earth ...

There's about a 20-something-minute window in which the Earth can be in the way of this before it's no longer in the path of the asteroid, or the asteroid cannot come in contact with the Earth ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Webb Space Telescope will observe this near-Earth asteroid in March before the object disappears from view. It will come back into view in 2028. While the ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4 ... lies within understanding 2024 YR4's orbit and how close it will come to Earth in the future, he said. Astronomers are at the beginning of ...