For about six weeks now, NASA has been tracking a small asteroid called “2024 YR4.” It has a very low chance of hitting the ...

YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency.

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

SpaceX will launch a new round of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station into lower Earth orbit on ...

YR4, discovered on December 27, 2024, by the ATLAS survey in Chile, has recently garnered attention due to an increased ...

NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has calculated a 2.3% chance—roughly a 1-in-43 probability—that asteroid ...

NASA and ESA monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Learn about Near-Earth Objects ...

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...