Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Where things stand: The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth currently stand at 2.1%, or about 1 in 47, and could fall to ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

NASA/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images ... Earth, but it is now moving away, Farnocchia said. The elongated shape of the orbit takes the asteroid around the sun and into Earth's vicinity before it ventures ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Astronomers predict that the asteroid 2024 YR4 ... of these issues by taking images of 2024 YR4 from its position 1 million miles (1.5 million km) away from Earth. That allows the space telescope ...

An asteroid is headed towards the Earth - but it’s probably not time to panic just yet.In recent days, there has been increasing alarm about 2024 YR4, an asteroid that is on course to fly towards ...

Originally designed to explore a metallic asteroid between ... mission control back on Earth. For now, the fact that we’ve managed to receive a laser message from 16 million kilometers away is a ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...