It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of Astronomy Ireland told DublinLive that 2024 YR4 would be a “country killer ...
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting ...
NASA analysis of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, indicates it has a more than 1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side. That’s good ...
CQ, about the size of a 15-story building, is expected to pass near Earth on February 5, 2025. Measuring 150 feet in width, ...
NASA researchers have been studying rock and dust brought back to Earth from the asteroid, Bennu. Those particles revealed ...
The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...
Fears have grown about the asteroid since it was first spotted and expert astronomers admitted it has a chance of hitting Earth.
A professor of planetary astronomy at the University of Edinburgh has spoken on Asteroid 2024 YR4 - a massive space object that is said to 'plummeting' towards Earth.
A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.