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

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, now has a 1.5% probability of hitting earth in 2032, according to NASA — and international agencies are feverishly working together to track the space rock and ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The twin cameras onboard, part of the spacecraft’s imaging system, photographed ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer ... traveling in space. A new study suggests that ... ESO Observations Help Almost Fully Rule out 2024 YR4 Asteroid Impact ...

But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance of collision once associated with an asteroid discovered in 2004 called Apophis, making 2024 YR4 the most significant space rock to be spotted ...

Called 2024 YR4, the near-Earth asteroid ... Much of the risk is based on an area of "uncertainty" in outer space, where the asteroid may or may not end up, and rising odds reflect new insights ...

And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space ... first pieces of evidence that space rocks are packed with organic compounds was the Murchison meteorite, which fell in Australia ...

As the story around asteroid 2024 YR4 shows, there is more good news in that we are getting better at detecting asteroids. Thanks to the coordination of the United Nations Office for Outer Space ...

The spacecraft is set to spend a little under a year traveling to an asteroid called 2022 OB5 ... was not specifically addressed in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which is the primary document ...