YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...
The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid ... far from land would pose much less risk, said Dr. Kumamoto — tall waves that would quickly shrink before ...
That spacecraft, the size of a refrigerator, will be designed to land on ... M-type asteroid before, a flyby of the asteroid 21 Lutetia in 2010. The presence of metal at that time was inconclusive.
AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...
A large asteroid known as 2024 ... it is made of and the short window of time to successfully deflect it. And what about the asteroids that do hit Earth? An awkward truth for scientists is that a ...
Called 2024 YR4, the near-Earth asteroid initially carried a 1% chance of hitting land when NASA and the European ... during a fleeting window of time in which the rock's orbit around the sun ...
This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade. The 2024 YR4 asteroid set off automated asteroid warning systems after ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...
A large asteroid ... window of time to successfully deflect it. And what about the asteroids that do hit Earth? An awkward truth for scientists is that a direct strike on land far from humans ...