YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

The impact crater of the second one lies unseen, 300m under the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Discovered in 2022, the Nadir crater lies off the coast of Guinea, West Africa. The 400m-wide asteroid ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by researchers at Heriot-Watt University. The images confirm the 9km Nadir ...

Dr. Nicholson noted that the scale of the Nadir impact is reminiscent of the 1908 Tunguska event, which involved a smaller asteroid explosion in the atmosphere over Siberia. The research provides ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is estimated to be around 130-300 feet wide, according to NASA, and would strike on Dec. 22, 2032 on the slim chances that it does impact Earth. According to NASA's Jet ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. Since its discovery, the asteroid gained global attention ...

The asteroid that once posed the greatest impact risk to Earth in recorded history now has an effective 0% chance of striking our planet." Discovered in December 2024, 2024 YR4 quickly climbed to ...

While the asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth, new calculations suggest a small but notable chance of a lunar impact, according to observations from the James Webb Space ...

However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet wide, exploded over Russia, injuring more than 1,600 people. An asteroid big enough to wipe ...