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

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

Here is NASA's prediction as what asteroid 2024 YR4 looks like, as the date and location of a potential 2032 collision are ...

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 ...

Scientists are debating multiple options to deal with an asteroid which could hit Earth in 2032 – but one is emerging as the ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a ...

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 ...

…Don’t look up. Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid roughly the size of Big Ben will smash into the Earth in 2032. The odds of this big old space rock, 2024 YR4, striking us was only ...

The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...

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 ...

Scientists are keeping close watch on the space rock, which is currently heading away from Earth ... show the asteroid also ventured close. If scientists can find the space rock in images from ...

“At that distance and for the size of this asteroid, it is not guaranteed that radar would detect it,” says Farnocchia. NASA's WISE space telescope captured this image of more than 100 asteroid ...