The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on December 22 2032 is now approximately 4%, and this probability ...

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent ...

The space rock will make one complete orbit of our planet between Sept. 29 and Nov. 25 before escaping Earth's gravity. Yet ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile on December 25 last year. In what could be considered "not the best Christmas present ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile.

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4.

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...

Images captured in December 2024 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System shows the path of a 130 to 300-foot-wide asteroid having a more than 1% chance of hitting Earth on ...

Images captured in December 2024 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System shows the path of a 130 to 300-foot-wide asteroid having a more than 1% chance of hitting Earth on ...

NASA and ESA scientists are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which is now projected to have a small chance of impacting the Moon ...