NASA’s eyes were locked on asteroid 2024 YR4, a massive space rock once feared to be on a collision course with Earth ...
The asteroid, which was first reported in December 2024 and is large enough to destroy an entire city, was initially ...
The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path ...
Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 dropped to near zero, astronomers say. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4.
The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in ...
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.
Any risk to Earth from this small asteroid has almost been eliminated, but there's still a chance it could hit the Moon in ...
After a few days of rising chances, NASA gave the all-clear of a meteor that could impact Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gotten media attention for its gradually growing chances of hitting the planet in ...