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YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...
The brilliant flash, which was accompanied by a sonic boom that many mistook for an earthquake, resulted in hundreds of calls ...
I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 ...
Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...
Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much.
There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...
The recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has caught astronomers' attention for an unexpected reason. While the risk of ...
NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...
YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...
A massive meteor crater in northern Arizona continues to attract visitors and spark curiosity about space and science, ...
The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...