The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers ...
YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...
The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...
YR4 is circling Earth and NASA predicts it could strike the planet in 2032. Here's what to know about the asteroid headed ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the ...
Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while ...
An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a ...
We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...