About 3,000 new near-Earth objects are found each year, but it’s been more difficult to find asteroids within the size range of 2024 YR4 because they’re dark, smaller and harder to spot with ...

In 1908, a 30-meter-wide (98-foot-wide) asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia, according to the Planetary Society. The event leveled trees and destroyed ...

Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated ... the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs.

Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to minimal levels, but its extraordinarily close approach will offer astronomers th ...

New calculations suggest there’s a 2% chance the space rock 2024 YR4 will smack Earth in 2032 ... the solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago. There are so many asteroids orbiting ...

Read More: NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope ... The location of 2024 YR4 qualifies it not just as any asteroid, but a near-Earth object (NEO). NEOs are defined as asteroids that hug ...

Asteroid 2024 ... New Mexico Institute of Technology on January 27, could hit Earth in the future. Scientists are monitoring. Picture: NASA/AFP 2024 YR4 was first detected on December 27 last year ...

The risk of a newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth has fallen ... its creation. A new asteroid was discovered on December 27 last year and scientists gave it the name 2024 YR4.