The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a collision course with Earth. “Only a few asteroids have been studied like this, ...

NASA increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, on Tuesday, but they're now back down to 1 ...

NASA has increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, up from 1 in 42 as reported in ...

The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years, the space agency hopes to launch an infrared space telescope devoted to ...

So the public need not panic and should await further results from astronomers," said Zhao Haibin, director of and researcher at the Department of Planetary Sciences and Deep Space Exploration at the ...

That's because this space rock, designated asteroid 2024 YR4 ... Gemini South telescope that's located on Cerro Pachón, a mountain in the Chilean Andes. At the time the image was taken, the ...

The space agency said there is currently a 1.7 percent chance the asteroid could “impact” the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will continue to examine the asteroid ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that the impact likelihood had dropped even further and was now just 0.16%. ☄️ The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years are now so low, they may as well be zero. The space rock between 130 and 300 feet long has caused quite a stir since ...

Near-Earth Object Telescope at Purple Mountain Observatory ... Aeronautics and Space Administration conducted a planetary defense experiment called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, in which ...