"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.

Riding along with IM-2 is NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite, managed by the agency’s. NASA's Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission ...

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

NASA also stated that the asteroid would be quite distant by April 2025, only to become very faint to be detected by ...

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

YR4 is a recently discovered near-Earth object (NEO) currently being closely monitored by NASA’s planetary defense teams.

The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.

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