Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

The team also determined that the asteroid is rotating very fast, about once every 20 minutes, and estimated its size to be 98 to 213 feet (30 to 65 meters) wide, according to the study.

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

2024 YR4 may not make catastrophic history, but it did set a new record for the JWST as the smallest object ever targeted by ...

The asteroid, thought to be capable of levelling a city, set a new record in February for having the highest chance -- 3.1 ...

When the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science lemonade. The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of ...

Image of the asteroid 2024 YR4 taken by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in January 2025, observed at infrared wavelengths. | Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered ...

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway. If the name of the asteroid sounds ...

"All an asteroid looks like in a telescope is a point of light against other points of lights that are stars, except it's moving," says Kelly Fast, Nasa's acting planetary defence officer ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA has raised the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4, a fast-moving object roughly the size ...

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 ...