In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...
Those worrying about the 2 percent likelihood of 2024 YR4 — a near-Earth asteroid discovered in December 2024 — colliding ...
YR4 has grabbed headlines lately, after NASA calculated a 1-in-32 chance of an impact in 2032 – the highest chance ever for ...
The only other asteroid to score higher on the Torino scale is 99942 Apophis, which briefly had a rating of 4 on the Torino scale in late 2004. Its threat is now just a zero on the scale after ...
At the end of 2024, a NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted 2024 YR4 and a month later scientists concluded there was a more than 1% chance the asteroid would ...
NASA has given yet another update on asteroid 2024 YR4 as researches continue to track the probability of it colliding with ...
The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...