Right now, astronomers estimate the asteroid is between 40 meters and 90 meters wide, which is roughly 130 to 295 feet wide. For reference, an American football field measures 100 yards — or 300 ...

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." It might not look like much in this image, but this is the ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4 ...

In late December of 2024, um, *** NASA funded near Earth asteroid survey, the one that, you know, I operate called Atlas, uh, discovered an asteroid that as it came by the Earth, uh, this time ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine just how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032.

There's a small chance that the asteroid could collide with Moon. While scientists have doubled the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032, new calculations show that there was a ...

Nasa said it is deploying the James Webb Space Telescope to overserve the asteroid. The asteroid will be at its brightest in March 2025 when the first round of Nasa observations is scheduled.

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim.New ...