“This is not the first possible collider that we saw in 2024,” Squillace said. “Two months before YR4 was found, there was 2024 RW1, a minor asteroid found at the Catalina Sky Survey. And Jaqueline ...

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 potential ...