Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about half the width of a football field and will pass very close to Earth on December 22, 2032, coming within approximately 106,200 km Asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth object ...

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The 2024 YR4 asteroid observed by NASA using the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on January 27, 2025. NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico ...

2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 last year through the ATLAS telescope in Chile. The probability of this asteroid colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, has been calculated to be 1.2%.

Follow-up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is on a path that might lead to a collision with our planet on 22 December 2032. In other words, the newly discovered space rock ...

The memo said “Asteroid 2024 YR4,” first detected in late December after it came out of the sun’s glare and passed by the Earth, might hit our planet on Dec. 22, 2032. The likelihood of ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet (40–90 meters) ...

Still, as astronomers further refine the accuracy of their orbital calculations for 2024 YR4, their odds of an Earth strike "could fall to zero almost any day now," he says. "But we don't know that." ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet (40-90 ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on Dec 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet (40-90 meters ...