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This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...
The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...
YR4, it appeared, was heading for Earth but more data recorded by the Webb Space Telescope has offered new information about ...
YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in December 2024 and believed to have a 3% chance of hitting the Earth in 2032, now has a near-zero chance of striking Earth, NASA wrote in an update Wednesday.
If the name of the asteroid sounds familiar, it's because YR4 caused quite an uproar earlier this year after it was discovered on a course projected to bring it uncomfortably close to Earth in 2032.
Credit: AP The ESA said if this asteroid follows the pattern of other near-Earth asteroids after ... with the potential to strike Earth in 2029. In 2021, scientists revised their estimates of ...
NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid ... to Earth at a distance of 562,000 miles, as reported by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). 2025 GH is part of a series of near-Earth approaches ...
An asteroid is headed toward a close approach to Earth on December 22, 2032. But fear not, the Webb Space Telescope just re-confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 has a nearly 0% probability of crashing ...
Graphic made in Canva Pro by Daisy Dobrijevic An asteroid will make a close pass of Earth this weekend and you can watch it live online. The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will sweep briefly across ...
They observed the asteroid using the 2.5-meter Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) in La Palma, Canary Islands, which the Finnish astronomers have used for a long time to study asteroids close to Earth.