The asteroid 2024 YR4 — the one that caused a stir earlier this year due to its potential collision course with Earth — has a ...

Researchers have managed to work out the shape of the 2024 YR4 asteroid, saying it is shaped like a hockey puck. Astronomers have also deduced the asteroid's origin, which was first detected in ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid with the potential to smack into the moon in the year 2032, according to new research. A team of astronomers recently studied the ...

Although asteroids make for splashy headlines, the likelihood of them creating a humanity-ending event is very unlikely.

A team of astronomers used the Gemini South Observatory in Chile to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 in multiple wavelengths as it zoomed away from Earth in February, barely 1 1/2 months after its discovery.

open image in gallery Artist’s illustration of asteroid 2024 YR4 as it flies by the Earth and heads toward potential impact with the Moon (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R Proctor) It would be one of the ...

NASA and international scientists closely tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a rare 3 percent collision probability with Earth. Although the threat has now diminished, the incident ...

Using the Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, a team of astronomers was able to identify the physical properties of asteroid 2024 YR4 and uncover its potential origin. The menacing ...

some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared it might collide with Earth. However, after detailed ...

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid set to smash into the Moon. Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin.

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from.