YR4 was first discovered in December last year by a telescope in Chile. The near-Earth asteroid is as big as a football field ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

An asteroid discovered in 2024 has been placed at level 3 on the Torino impact scale, with a small chance of impact with ...

NASA's successful experiment in knocking an asteroid off course could come in handy in 2032. Astronomers say an asteroid ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 last year through the ATLAS telescope in Chile. The probability of this asteroid colliding ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about half the width of a football field and will pass very close to Earth on December 22, 2032, coming within approximately 106,200 km Asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth object ...

A massive asteroid, codenamed '2024 YR4', potentially poses a collision threat to Earth in December 2032. With a diameter similar to that of a football field, the asteroid's approach has prompted ...

The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...

telescope in Chile observed a new asteroid near our planet. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between 40 and 100 meters in size—was spotted on December 27. The asteroid’s closest ...