A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ... s Very Large Telescope in Chile captured these images of the asteroid in early January. The images have been aligned ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...

With the 2024 YR4 asteroid ... Getty Images "It's the highest probability of an impact I can recall. And it has the potential, the possibility for being an emergency for planet Earth." ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Update: Odds have slightly increased to 1 in 83. This is one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly ...

Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand Canyon were produced by a cataclysmic collision nearly ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years. Such an impact ...

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or take images from a spacecraft that could closely approach the asteroid, suggests IAWN. However, 2024 YR4 will be too distant for radar observations until 2032, when it could strike Earth.

The images in the animation were captured by an ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on Christmas Day 2024, when the asteroid had “a close approach with Earth,” becoming bright enough to be ...