YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 is one possibly ... asteroid to determine whether it will definitely miss the planet. That’s partly because this planetary defense system ...

NASA’s DART mission tested asteroid deflection. Scientists analyzed ejecta patterns, momentum transfer, and deflection ...

Okay, I am being overly dramatic by the title, the asteroid YR4 was initially projected to have a 3.1% chance of hitting the ...

The asteroid, which was first reported in December 2024 and is large enough to destroy an entire city, was initially ...

The latest telescopic observations have reduced the danger posed by 2024 YR4 to near-zero ... is now a 99.9989 per cent chance the asteroid will miss Earth entirely. Right from the start, the ...