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

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, has a 2.3% chance of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, according to a NASA update on Feb.

An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a ...

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

At the end of 2024, astronomers detected an asteroid in the night sky. It was given the designation Y, since it was ...

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YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near ...

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.