NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers say not to fret.

An asteroid could potentially crash into Earth in less than eight years. Here's everything to know about asteroid 2024 YR4.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

2024 YR4's trajectory needs to be refined. (Artist's impression of an asteroid. Elements of this ... [+] image furnished by NASA). Feb 7, 2024: the size of 2024 YR4 was mistakenly said to be the ...

NASA's watchful eye on the skies has recently spotted asteroid Bennu, a celestial body with a slim chance of impacting Earth.

In the world’s first successful planetary defence test in 2022, US space agency Nasa altered an asteroid’s trajectory by colliding with it.

But scientists say they expect the asteroid’s future trajectory and impact probability to change as astronomers collect and analyze more data. Identifying an asteroid whose path may be toward ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert ... But more precise telescope observations moved Apophis' range of trajectory off of Earth. The impact probability then plummeted.

As of February 7, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculates that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR4 ... used to evaluate the size and trajectory of 2024 YR4, once in March ...

The more astronomers can observe asteroid 2024 YR4, the more they can refine their understanding of its size and trajectory, which will determine the likelihood of an impact. “Basically ...