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NASA has continuously been monitoring 2024 YR4 since it was first reported on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...
The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...
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 ...
The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...
YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...
By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...
After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...
Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...
The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...
YR4 was one of the highest-risk asteroids identified in the last 25 years. There’s a 4.3 per cent chance it hits the moon.
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that asteroid 2024 YR4, initially a potential threat to Earth, now ...