The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...
Astronomers briefly raised the alert level for an asteroid that could be on a collision course with Earth. They gave it a 3% ...
Footage has shown asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 3.2% chance of striking Earth on December 22, 2032. NASA continues to track the asteroid and its techniques.
However, we’re not totally out of the woods just yet. YR4 still sits at a level three on the Torino Scale — a standard rubric ...
Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and professor at MIT. Binzel and his team have been following asteroid 2024 YR4 for months. It was first identified by NASA late last year and has been ...
YR4 has grabbed headlines lately, after NASA calculated a 1-in-32 chance of an impact in 2032 – the highest chance ever for ...
FOX 13's Evan Axelbank reports that an asteroid that could be on a collision course with Earth was given a 3% chance of ...
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 on ...
In early February, NASA announced that the asteroid’s chances of hitting our planet grew to 2.3%. And most recently, on Feb.
Within this short window of study, scientists have given the asteroid a 3.1% chance of colliding with Earth. That’s 1-in-32 ...
Astronomers briefly raised the alert level for an asteroid that could be on a collision course with Earth. They gave it a 3% ...
The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...