After asteroid 2024 YR4 first flew into view of NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in December 2024 ...

The asteroid, discovered in December 2024, is believed to measure between 40 metres and 90 metres. It was first given a ...

Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent and marine photosynthesis by 25 percent. That would in ...

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city ... Rankin told Live Science that, based on current estimates, a collision with the moon could release more energy than 340 Hiroshima bombs.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting ... Rankin told Live Science that, based on current estimates, a collision with the moon could release more energy than 340 Hiroshima bombs.

Chances are increasing that a large asteroid, dubbed YR4, will strike Earth in 2032, possibly resulting in large-scale destruction wherever it lands. On Tuesday, astronomers with NASA’s Center ...

with the ESA saying that current risk estimates are probably unnecessarily high because the people studying it are still uncertain about some of the asteroid's key features. Right now, astronomers ...

The media is full of reports of a “city killer” asteroid called 2024 YR4 that's destined to impact Earth in 2032, with astronomers about to be left helpless as it moves out of view of ...

An expert warns we can't use NASA's DART spacecraft 'whenever we want' so it's just as well asteroid 2024 YR4 is very unlikely to hit Earth Science journalist Dr Robin George Andrews has weighed in on ...