2024 YR4's trajectory needs to be refined. (Artist's impression of an asteroid. Elements of this ... [+] image furnished by NASA). Feb 7, 2024: the size of 2024 YR4 was mistakenly said to be the ...

Discovered on December 27, 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently rated as a three on the Torino scale. Space agencies around the world are closely monitoring ...

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China has started assembling a planetary defence team to counter the threat of near-Earth asteroids following the discovery of a large asteroid that could strike our planet in seven years.

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 ...

Scientists are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid — 2024 YR4 — whose chances of hitting Earth just before Christmas in 2032 are rising. The asteroid 2024 YR4 was first spotted by the ...

However, 2024 YR4 triggered the alarm at ATLAS because there’s a not-insignificant chance that the asteroid, which is about the size of the Eiffel Tower, may slam into Earth in 2032. At the time ...

Our current best guess is that this object, called 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-43 chance of striking in 2032, the highest risk of any known asteroid. But what does that number really mean, and when ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry. By Robin George Andrews Robin George ...

The space rock - named 2024 YR4 - has a 2.2% chance of crashing into our planet in 2032, the European Space Agency (ESA) has said. The Agency had previously said there was a 1.2% likelihood of a ...

Based on projections, the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, has a little more than one per cent chance of impact with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. But that doesn’t mean you should panic — at least not yet ...

If it did strike Earth, 2024 YR4 would cause “severe blast damage,” according to IAWN, spanning as far as 50 kilometres from the impact site. For now, YR4 has been given a Level 3 rating out ...