Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...
NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...
The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, is roughly 130 to 300 feet across. It was first reported on Dec. 27, 2024, by the NASA-funded ...
Initial projections estimated a 1% chance of collision, but recent calculations have doubled those odds to 2.3%. Scientists admit, however, that much remains unknown about the asteroid's size and ...
A NASA engineer has shared a 'risk corridor' that shows the countries that could be hit by the 2024 YR4 asteroid if it were ...