NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.
YR4 now has a 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, prompting ongoing observations. Ground-based telescopes will track it ...
NASA says it's aware of an asteroid with a "very small chance" of hitting Earth in seven years. It's raised questions about ...
2024 YR4 is only the second asteroid whose impact risk has reached greater than a 1% chance. The other is asteroid 99942, better known as “Apophis” — named after the Egyptian god of chaos ...
Below is a quick look at the risk of 2024 YR4 making a deep impact on our home world. Holy crap! Are we all going to die in 2032?! No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid. First off ...
The odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 have increased to 1 in 43. Despite this, you still shouldn't worry about the potential impact of this asteroid. That's because experts ...
The near-earth object first discovered in 2024 has stirred up conversation on social media because of the potential for an ...
Researchers used computer simulations to study the impact of an asteroid with the diameter of Bennu (about 500 meters) to ascertain what the fallout of the collision would be. They found that ...
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation ...
What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...