A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

The asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — is orbiting on a path that will bring it close to Earth in 2032 ... For instance, NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to an asteroid named Bennu and, in ...

Okay, I am being overly dramatic by the title, the asteroid YR4 was initially projected to have a 3.1% chance of hitting the ...

He said: "When we first discover an asteroid, we see only a tiny piece of its orbital path. "Astronomers always check immediately to make sure that orbital path isn't intersecting with Earth any ...

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have officially ruled out the possibility of asteroid 2024 YR4 ... have significantly narrowed its orbital path – confirming it will safely ...

So far, scientists have only seen a small fraction of the asteroid’s orbit, which every four years goes in a wildly oblong path from inside the Earth’s orbit to nearly the distance of Jupiter.

The Moon, however, could be in 2024 YR4 asteroid's path. NASA's latest numbers show there's a 1.7% probability that it could impact the Moon. The asteroid was first spotted on Dec. 27, 2024 ...

However, as with Apophis, astronomers expected the risk for 2024 YR4 to spike and then fall to zero as they obtained more observational data to reduce uncertainties about the asteroid’s path.