An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

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

YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach in 2032. The telescope confirmed Earth is safe, but there is a 3.8% chance ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting the moon in December 2032, a slight rise from NASA’s February estimate of 1.7%.

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared it might collide with Earth. However, after detailed ...

But he added that the collision would likely be "very visible" from Earth. The most detailed images of asteroid 2024 YR4 were captured by a space telescope in Chile on February 7. They were taken ...