Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and professor at MIT. Binzel and his team have been following asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
The chances of the ‘city-killer’ asteroid hitting Earth are minimal. However, the potential devastation would be massive.
Scientists have set the potential impact date for the 2024 YR4 asteroid as December 22, 2032. Where could it hit? Ultimately, ...
Astronomers are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which once had the highest recorded impact probability for its size.
NASA announced the reduced impact risk on its X feed at around 5:00 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) on Wednesday (Feb. 19). The updated ...
As dark moonless skies make new observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 possible, its orbit is being refined — and the impact ...
Astronomers are closely tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, a recently discovered near-Earth object (NEO) that has a 2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. While the probability remains low, scientists stress ...
In early February, NASA announced that the asteroid’s chances of hitting our planet grew to 2.3%. And most recently, on Feb.
NASA and other space agencies are attempting to come up with a way to destroy a massive asteroid unlikely to strike Earth.
Scientists have their eye on the sky as an asteroid making its way toward earth that could be the size of a football field has come into view.The asteroid dubbed "2024 YR4" was first ...
NASA announced Wednesday that the odds of the up to 300-foot-wide asteroid hitting Earth dropped from record highs. See where ...
Astronomers said the threat posed by Asteroid 2024 YR4 now exceeds the threat posed by the widely known 2004 Apophis asteroid ...