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A "city-killer" asteroid has a slim chance to crash into Earth. Here's what to know.
Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet wide.
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This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...
London Evening Standard3d
Asteroid ‘could head for Earth’, researchers say, but when and where could it strike?
Researchers from Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey discovered what has become known as Asteroid 2024 YR4 last Christmas. On January 28, the asteroid was placed at level 3 in the Torino impact hazard ...
The Hill3d
New NASA imagery shows large asteroid that could impact Earth in 2032
The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...
Scientific American10d
Newfound Asteroid May Hit Earth in 2032, Scientists Say
telescope in Chile observed a new asteroid near our planet. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between 40 and 100 meters in size—was spotted on December 27. The asteroid’s closest ...
Newsweek3d
Massive Asteroid Is Headed for Earth. Here's Where It Could Hit in 2032
Jonathan O'Callaghan, a journalist who won British Science Journalist of the Year at the 2024 ABSW Awards, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the impact of the asteroid could be "1,000 times more ...
Phys.org8d
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth: What we know so far
Follow-up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is on a path that might lead to a collision with our planet on 22 December 2032. In other words, the newly discovered space rock ...
Forbes7d
A Deadly Asteroid May Strike Earth — What To Know
There's a 1.3% chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could strike Earth (artist's impression of an ... [+] asteroid). There’s a 1.3% chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could strike Earth, according to ...
USA Today9d
Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
But astronomers who are keeping a close eye on the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, expect that the probability will more than likely fall to zero as more observations and data about its flight path ...