YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

It's easy to get used to these asteroid warnings. However, it's a bad idea to ignore the threat they pose. 2024 YR4 is not ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

Given that, the calculations show that 2024 YR4 would impact with an energy of 7.7 megatons, the same size as the Bighorn nuclear test dropped on Christmas Island in 1962.

Scientists are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid — 2024 YR4 — whose chances of hitting Earth just before Christmas in 2032 are rising. The asteroid 2024 YR4 was first spotted by the ...

If the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, were to hit the planet, it would collide at 2.02pm on 22 December 2032 Read all the answers to your questions below - or watch the Q&A in the video above Ask a ...

How will the James Webb Space Telescope help track 2024 YR4? The Webb Telescope launched Christmas Day in 2021 and made a splash seven months later when the first images were released in July 2022 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile on December 25 last year. In what could be considered "not the best Christmas present ...

The chances of a close encounter of a most unpleasant kind with Asteroid 2024 YR4 have risen ... in December there was a 1.6 percent chance it would hit the Earth just before Christmas 2032.

Just after Christmas Day, astronomers spotted something zipping away from Earth: a rock somewhere between 130 feet and 330 feet long that they named 2024 YR4. Over the next few weeks, they ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.