The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
Astronomers have upped the odds of an asteroid called 2024 YR4 striking Earth, albeit in 2032, but warn that it will most ...
The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...
"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% as more ...
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close to Earth in 2032. The chances of an impact remain ...
YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.
NASA says it's aware of an asteroid with a "very small chance" of hitting Earth in seven years. It's raised questions about ...
Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close to Earth in 2032 ... "It's not surprising the percentage went up," Bruce Betts, an astronomer and ...
NASA is using its most powerful space telescope to study the true size of the "city-killer" asteroid that has a one-in-43 ...
Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.