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NASA has discovered a new asteroid, 2024 YR4, with the highest recorded impact probability. The likelihood of it hitting ...
Learn about the latest update on asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 3.8 percent chance to impact the Moon.
An exceptionally bright meteor streaked across the Mexico City sky, ending with a loud explosion in the pre-dawn hours of ...
An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.
Don't worry – it's still not a danger to Earth for the time being. When we last checked in, odds of a collision between 2024 YR4 and Earth were at just 0.001 percent, far too low to be considered ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach in 2032. The telescope confirmed Earth is safe, but there is a 3.8% chance ...
YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...
A bright object, initially appearing to be a meteorite, lit up the skies over Mexico’s capital around 3 a.m. Wednesday, stretching over plains, volcanoes, and small towns.
A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash ... a five-hour observation of the space rock and found it may make impact elsewhere: the moon. The football field-sized asteroid ...
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour, according to NASA.
While the chance is still small, the updated forecast does note an increased impact risk that the city-killer asteroid will strike the Moon. Originally discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 ...
Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...