An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit ... Every year, on average, an "automobile-sized asteroid" plummets ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December ... "An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the ...

Scientists are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid — 2024 YR4 — whose chances of hitting ... "An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause ...

The odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 have increased to 1 in 43. Despite this, you still shouldn't worry about the potential impact of this asteroid. That's because experts ...

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 ...

A massive asteroid, codenamed '2024 YR4', potentially poses a collision ... is rapidly hurtling towards the Earth and has a higher than average possibility of colliding with our planet in the ...

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 ...

Based on projections, the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, has a little more than one per ... “An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage ...