According to NASA, "Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space ...
Most asteroid flybys pass millions of kilometers away from Earth, too distant to notice. But one upcoming encounter will be ...
The asteroid is projected to come within 865,000 miles of Earth—nearly five times closer than the orbit of the moon.
Researchers, including some from NASA, say the best option to stop an asteroid with a 4% chance of smashing into the moon and a .00081% chance of slamming into Earth may be to nuke it. Earlier this ...
What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...