Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile a couple of days after Christmas. ATLAS is an early-warning system for smaller ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

2024 YR4 has now fallen from the riskiest asteroid on NASA’s automated Sentry ... the same size as the Bighorn nuclear test dropped on Christmas Island in 1962. It also fits into the range ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 also rates 3 of 10 on the Torino Impact ... The Webb Telescope launched Christmas Day in 2021 and made a splash seven months later when the first images were released in ...

NASA astronomers say there's a small chance a distant asteroid could hit Earth three days before Christmas in 2032 ... If the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, were to hit the planet, it would collide ...

IT IS PREDICTED THAT THE ASTEROID COULD HIT EARTH ON DECEMBER 22ND, 2032, RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS ... Scientists are tracking Asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of colliding with Earth ...

The chances of a close encounter of a most unpleasant kind with Asteroid 2024 YR4 have risen again ... chance it would hit the Earth just before Christmas 2032. When I first posted on this ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, now has a 1.5% chance of colliding with ... It came closest to Earth on Christmas Day, two days before it was first spotted, passing within around 500,000 miles of Earth.