NASA and ESA are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, with an estimated size of up to 328 feet and a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth.

The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

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An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

Scientists around the world are watching asteroid 2024 YR4 closely as NASA and European Space Agency officials say the ...

A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution and other unwanted side effects from the proposed construction of a renewa ...

Should the asteroid remain on a collision path, it would likely have a velocity of 17.34 km/sec. (10.7 mph/sec.) when first ...