"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

Even in the increasingly unlikely event of an impact from YR4, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest appear to be safe from impact ...

For several years, astronomers have been aware of a much-ballyhooed “city-killer” asteroid named YR4 2024, which is hurtling ...

Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

Researchers have found that students persistently picture older white men in lab coats, usually with glasses. For years, the K-12 education team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory worked to get ...

On Tuesday, astronomers reported that 2024 YR4’s probability of colliding with Earth increased to approximately 3%, which is ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

NASA first discovered “2024 YR4,” the 130-to-300-foot-wide asteroid, in December 2024, and found it only had roughly a 1 ...

Researchers have found that students persistently picture older white men in lab coats, usually with glasses. For years, the ...