asteroid 2024 YR4 in data from the Catalina Sky Survey, meaning he was able to find images of the space rock in archival data that was gathered prior to its official discovery. Space.com reached ...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of consternation because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth. It's the most hazardous space rock detected since astronomers first ...

Given its size, 2024 YR4 has the potential to do a great deal of harm, particularly if it makes landfall in a heavily populated area, such as a large city. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is comparable in size to ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid ...

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,” according to JPL, becoming ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. 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 ...

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 ...

With the 2024 YR4 asteroid scheduled to near Earth by 2032 ... on September 12, 2022. Getty Images "It's the highest probability of an impact I can recall. And it has the potential, the ...