Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...
Asteroid YR4 won’t hit Earth, but scientists can’t rule out a moon hit
There is a second round of observations set for May 2025, before the asteroid could disappear into the outer solar system for ...
Asteroid Large Enough to Destroy an Entire City Could Still Strike the Moon in 2032, Scientists Say
The infamous 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4, which is large enough to destroy an entire city, still has a 2% chance of ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Earth Spared, Moon in Danger? Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has 4% Chance of Hitting Lunar Surface
After sending chills down their spines with its brief stint as the highest-risk space object ever recorded, a near-Earth ...
Asteroid May Not Hit Earth in 2032, But It Will Come Back
The bad news about that is that both Alinda and 2024 YR4 are very nearly in the plane of Earth's orbit, and are not tilted ...
NASA Tracking Car-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
'City-Killer' Asteroid Impact Still a Possibility (Just Not With Earth)
Don't worry – it's still not a danger to Earth for the time being. When we last checked in, odds of a collision between 2024 ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
Asteroid warning as huge space rock may smash into Moon
The large space rock, named 2024 YR4, was originally thought to have a 3.1 per cent possibility of smashing into our planet ...
Enormous asteroid the size of Germany which would wipe out all life on earth if it hit
An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...