The risk of impact is likely drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

It was identified by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, four telescopes around the world that hunt near-Earth objects and are funded by NASA. Its telescope in Chile found ...

the technical lead at NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, told Business Insider. Even so, the object — called asteroid 2024 YR4 — is Earth's biggest known impact threat in 20 years ...

Despite its close proximity, twice the distance to the Moon, it poses no threat of collision. Scientists continue to monitor such near-Earth objects ... miles on 13 April 2029. Asteroid hunter ...

It will make another pass by Earth in mid-April ... the 196-foot asteroid "2024 YR4", first spotted by NASA on December 25 last year. The space agency's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies ...

‘The asteroid will be observable, and information will be updated, through early April 2025 and then ... skies for what astronomers call ‘near-Earth objects’. This system discovered YR4 ...

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid ... human-made objects are launched into space. These misidentifications could lead to more false alarms for near-Earth asteroids ...

Astronomers confirmed the object as a near-Earth asteroid, and catalogued it as 2024 YR4. But additional calculations soon raised red flags—its estimated 130-328 feet diameter and potential ...

while an asteroid’s motion won’t be very noticeably affected, according to NASA. Scientists from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), which tracks asteroids and space debris ...

The MPC, part of the International Astronomical Union, maintains an official catalog of near-Earth objects like asteroids and comets. It reports, numbers and names new discoveries. The asteroid ...