YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...
The odds of a newly discovered asteroid '2024 YR4' crashing into Earth are rising according to scientists. Here's what to know and where it can hit.
Astronomers are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a slim 1.2% chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032.
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
Scientists have found an asteroid that might smash into the Earth in December 2032. That's less than eight short years away, ...
2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 last year through the ATLAS telescope in Chile. The probability of this asteroid colliding ...
NASA calculates a 2.3% chance of the asteroid, over 50 meters in size, impacting our planet. The Space Agency and NASA have recalculated their predictions, and the chances of the asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 certainly does not pose an existential ... spied the asteroid two days after the rock, on Christmas, made its closest approach to Earth. It was roughly twice as far away from ...
This “near Earth asteroid” — now called 2024 YR4 — was initially discovered ... and came the closest to our planet on Christmas Day. But be at ease, reader: While scientists last week ...