The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
On February 7, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculated that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 2.3 percent chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032. But on February 24 ...
open image in gallery Nasa's DART mission in 2022 proved that Earth has the technology to redirect Asteroid 2024 YR4 before ...
There are many asteroids that orbit within our solar system. Most are not a threat to earth. However, an asteroid that was ...
first spotted 2024 YR4 and a month later scientists concluded there was a more than 1% chance the asteroid would crash into Earth in December 2032. When scientists first reported their findings in ...
As space scientists around the world scramble to learn more about an asteroid classified as a "city destroyer" that could ...
NASA has confirmed a 2.3% chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could collide with Earth in December 2032, posing a significant riskThe asteroid, measuring between 40 to 100 metres wide, could potentially ...
NASA also stated that the asteroid would be quite distant by April 2025, only to become very faint to be detected by ...