YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

This risk placed it prominently on NASA’s Sentry Impact Risk Table, a list that tracks potential asteroid threats to Earth. Over the next few months, astronomers refined their observations and ...

What was once dubbed a potential 'city-killer' asteroid for Earth has now had its sights redefined. New observations from ...

NASA has just issued a chilling update on asteroid 2024 YR4 — a massive, Statue of Liberty-sized rock that now has a growing chance of crashing into the Moon by 2032. Once seen as a low-risk object, ...

An asteroid scientists feared would cause havoc by striking the Earth in the year 2032 now has an increased likelihood of hitting the Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently too distant to detect with ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was previously considered the highest recorded impact risk to Earth ... according to a recent update from Nasa. "As data comes in, it is normal for the impact probability ...

The asteroid ... from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to make a precise calculation of Bennu’s orbit and its future proximity to our home planet. The researchers then analyzed the impact hazard ...

On average, one or two space rocks large enough to cataclysmically impact ... NASA is launching a spacecraft next year to conduct the first test of one promising strategy for stopping a killer ...