The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds as its revised trajectory is now ...

The latest data on asteroid 2024 YR4 has scientists confident that Earth is no longer in the bullseye. However the enormous ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit Earth, now has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon by 2032, possibly visible from Earth ...

A large asteroid once considered the greatest known risk to Earth may now be on track for a direct hit — not on our planet, ...

The Moon, unlike Earth, lacks an atmosphere to absorb or deflect impact debris. A direct hit from YR4 could create a crater ...

The asteroid has revised its trajectory and now on course to potentially collide with the moon in late 2032. | ITV National News ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the planet it would be a regional impact event, not impacting the whole planet. People, even a hundred miles away, might not even feel it.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has popped up on the news again, offering both peril and opportunities, A few months ago, NASA noted that 2024 YR4 had a 3.1 percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032.

YR4 was detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS telescope, in Río Hurtado, Chile, two days ...

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in December 2024. While the risk to Earth is negligible, 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher chance of impacting the moon.