NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured images of the asteroid with two cameras, including the Near-Infrared Camera and ...

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 possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting ... planet. That increase briefly saw 2024 YR4 labelled as the riskiest asteroid in the history of NASA’s Centre for Near ...

While astronomers eventually ruled out the asteroid as a threat to our planet, it was always the ... large space rocks with any chance of hitting Earth anytime soon – with its probability ...

Each year, according to Nasa, a chunk of rock the size of a car hurtles through space on a collision course with our planet ... the risk of the asteroid hitting the Earth briefly climbed to ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 ... initially showed a slight risk of hitting Earth in 2032, recent NASA data indicates it presents no substantial danger to our planet in 2032 or the future.

n huge asteroid that was briefly feared ... the highest chance -- 3.1 percent -- of hitting our home planet than scientists have ever measured. Earth's planetary defence community leapt into ...

A “city killer” asteroid had a chance of striking Earth in 2032 is now expected to miss the planet. But there ... to have a three per cent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032, now has ...

which they had once predicted could collide with Earth in 2032. The asteroid was detected late last year and initial predictions placed it at a 3 per cent chance of hitting the planet. Additional ...

An asteroid that could be the size of a 10-storey building will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon have doubled. Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of ...