In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

The threat of Asteroid 2024 YR4 has not gone away just yet. The near-Earth object was discovered in December and calculations ...

YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short ...

The chances of our planet colliding with this newly discovered object in 2032 are very remote, but they have recently almost doubled. In December, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet ... Then on Thursday, they leaped to 2.3 percent, before slipping slightly ...

Unfortunately, the impact probability of 2024 YR4 has now risen. As a matter of fact, the probability of the asteroid hitting Earth has nearly doubled to 2.3%, according to Sentry: Earth Impact ...

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth have risen, with astronomers increasing the odds from 1.3% to 2.3% that it will strike Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. The asteroid is thought to measure ...

Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency. The risk assessment has increased from a chance of 1.2% over the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and other agencies are studying a large asteroid that was discovered in 2024. While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven ...

Scientists are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid — 2024 YR4 — whose chances of hitting ... However, those chances have since increased to 2.3% as of Thursday, according to NASA ...

Remember 2024 YR4, the asteroid NASA revealed last week ... said Thursday that the likelihood of impact has now reached 2.3 per cent. ☄️ We aren’t just waiting for an asteroid to strike.

This handout picture provided by NASA on January 31, 2025 shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as observed by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on January 27 ...