The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first spotted on December 27 by the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey. It is classed as a near-Earth asteroid and is about 100m wide ...

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The latest calculations show that the asteroid known as "2024 YR4" has an increased chance of striking our planet in Dec.

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course.

Astronomers have raised the likelihood of “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth to 2.3 per cent, or roughly one in 43.

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Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet ... Andrews has written a book about the science of planetary defense, and has written ...

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Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between 40 and 100 meters in size—was spotted on December 27. The asteroid’s closest approach to Earth, it turned out, had been two days earlier ...

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 ...

An asteroid discovered in 2024 has been placed at level 3 on the Torino impact scale, with a small chance of impact with Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered by the Asteroid ...