An asteroid called 2024 YR4 has been identified - and it’s heading back toward Earth with a 3.1% chance of impact by December ...

Venus may be hiding asteroids that could be catastrophic if they were to hit Earth, according to some researchers. A new study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics ...

2024 YR4 asteroid has chance to hit Earth: Scientists NASA first discovered “2024 YR4,” a 174-to-220-foot-wide asteroid, in December and found it only had roughly a 1% chance of impacting Earth on its ...

NASA tracks five near-Earth asteroids flying close to our planet this week. Despite their size, none pose a threat for at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and other agencies are studying a large asteroid that was discovered in 2024. While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven ...

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

Researchers have managed to work out the shape of the 2024 YR4 asteroid, saying it is shaped like a hockey puck. Astronomers have also deduced the asteroid's origin, which was first detected in ...

Using the Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, a team of astronomers was able to identify the physical properties of asteroid 2024 YR4 and uncover its potential origin. The menacing ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once dubbed a “city killer”, has an alarmingly high 1-in-26 chance of smashing into the lunar satellite, according to NASA's latest chilling update. The space rock ...

YR4 is around 130-300 feet across, according to NASA estimates and could cause massive damage if it hits the Earth ...