Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of ...

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting ... to see fainter objects farther into space. Located atop Cerro Paranal, an 8,645-foot-high (2,635 m) mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 asteroid was faint ... a powerful, 26-foot space-spotting device located on a mountain in the Chilean Andes. They reportedly show slightly grainy images of the interstellar projectile ...

The new data is in. "NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future," the space agency said in an update on Feb.