The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
At the end of 2024, astronomers detected an asteroid in the night sky. It was given the designation Y, since it was ...
Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.
"While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1% to a ...
Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...
NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December ...
YR4 was first reported to the Minor Planet Center â€“ the international clearing house for small body positional measurements – ...
If a space rock of this size were to strike Earth, it could cause significant regional damage — similar to the 2013 ...