Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet wide.

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4 and measuring 100m by 40m, is currently at a distance of around 27 million miles and is edging away. However, its path will cross our orbit on 22 December 2032 and ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid – named 2024 YR4 – having a more than 1% chance of ...

Telescopes around the world are currently trained on a building-sized asteroid hurtling in Earth’s direction, in an effort to try to understand whether it might hit us. Our current best guess is ...

But astronomers who are keeping a close eye on the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, expect that the probability will more than likely fall to zero as more observations and data about its flight path ...

Illustrative image of asteroid Dimorphos (unrelated to 2024 YR4), captured by NASA’s DART mission just two seconds before the spacecraft struck its surface, on September 26, 2022. Illustrative ...

There's a 1.3% chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could strike Earth (artist's impression of an ... [+] asteroid). There’s a 1.3% chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could strike Earth, according to ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December 2032. By Robin George Andrews Robin George Andrews has written a book ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...