A massive asteroid, 2024 YR4, initially estimated at 40 meters in diameter, is actually 60 meters wide, posing a more ...

Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance ...

Scientists have unveiled new information about the 2024 YR4, a 'city killer' asteroid that scientists had warned could have a ...

There is a second round of observations set for May 2025, before the asteroid could disappear into the outer solar system for ...

Scientists say ‘city-killer’ asteroid on potential collision course with Moon - Asteroid 2024 YR4 was initially estimated to ...

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a ...

Discovered in December 2024 in the Chilean desert, the asteroid 2024 YR4 initially posed a minuscule risk of impacting Earth. NASA had initially assessed a striking probability of just 0.004% for a ...

YR4 was discovered on December 27, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) based in Chile. Initially labeled as a potentially hazardous object, its odds of striking Earth ...

Don't worry – it's still not a danger to Earth for the time being. When we last checked in, odds of a collision between 2024 ...

The potential collision of YR4 with the Moon may lead to the formation of new meteoroids, as the collision may create a large ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.