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 ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024 by El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet (40-90 metres ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet ... You may hear about a large asteroid headed toward Earth. Don’t panic.

shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid – named 2024 YR4 – having a more than 1% chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. “ Currently, no other known large asteroids have an ...

discovered the existence of an asteroid known as 2024 YR4. That ATLAS should discover an asteroid is no surprise—there are millions of them in our cosmic neck of the woods alone. However ...

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4 and measuring 100m by 40m, is currently at a distance of around 27 million miles and is edging away. However, its path will cross our orbit on 22 December 2032 and ...

China has started assembling a planetary defence team to counter the threat of near-Earth asteroids following the discovery of a large asteroid that could strike our planet in seven years.