NASA first discovered “2024 YR4,” the 130-to-300-foot-wide asteroid, in December 2024, and found it only had roughly a 1 percent chance of impacting Earth on its trajectory, NewsNation’s Los Angeles ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the threat once posed by Apophis.

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...

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Astronomers say the asteroid, estimated at 40-90 m (131-295 ft.) in diameter, could impact Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. “It is ...

Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas ...

The estimated size of this asteroid ranges from about 40 to 90 meters. Wouldn't there also be a big difference between the damage caused by something 40 meters wide versus 90 meters? Absolutely.

It was first spotted at the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. At that size, the ESA published in a Jan. 29 statement, an impact on Earth "could ...

but a newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, is indeed on a potential collision course with our planet. First detected late last year, NASA estimates its size to be between 130 and 300 feet (40 to ...

"To be clear, we expect the impact probability to drop to zero at some point.”Since the asteroid's size and orbit are uncertain, it's unclear where it might hit and what the possible impacts ...