YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
"Many of them had feathers, [so] they could insulate themselves just like mammals can," Brusatte said. In addition, some ...
The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth have fallen once again, now to 0.28%, NASA announced on Thursday.
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...
The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...
With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...
The asteroid 2024 YR4 probably won’t come nearly as close to Earth anytime soon as the space rock in this artist’s ...
The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...
Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.
YR4 is a recently discovered near-Earth object (NEO) currently being closely monitored by NASA’s planetary defense teams.