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

NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby around 139 million miles (223 million km) from Earth.

Their findings provide a closer look at the asteroid’s composition and characteristics as well as revealing a surprising origin. YR4, a rocky and solid object, likely hails from an asteroid ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

the principal investigator of the Webb Director's Discretionary Time program used to study the asteroid's characteristics from the observations. While earlier in the year asteroid 2024 YR4 posed a ...

The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has doubled within the last few weeks, just like something out of a sci-fi movie. The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an ...

The space rock was first detected in December and was initially considered to have a chance of striking Earth in 2032.

According to Asteroid Day, several characteristics affect an asteroid's intensity of damage. These characteristics are composition, shock wave power, trajectory angle, and impact terrain.

The asteroid 2024 YR4 — the one that caused ... accurately determine not only the asteroid's composition and orbital characteristics but also its distinctly flattened, hockey-puck-like shape.

The study of its characteristics enhances our understanding of near-Earth objects and informs planetary defense strategies. Asteroid 2024 YR4's 60-meter (200-foot) size was alarming when ...