Even though the asteroid is relatively small, it could still be what some are calling a "city killer" because if it were to hit Earth, it could cause significant devastation in a populous area.
NASA’s recent announcement brought relief to millions of people across the globe: Earth is no longer in danger of being struck by asteroid 2024 YR4. This massive space rock, which once posed a serious ...
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field ... Such an impact, if it occurred, would have the potential for city-level devastation, depending on where it strikes. Prior to the odds dipping ...
The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth has been reduced to almost zero after new observations dramatically shrunk the “uncertainty window,” according to the European Space Agency.
Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of impacting our planet have fluctuated since then, according to NASA and the European Space ...
Characterized as a potential "city-killer," the asteroid was first detected in December and its odds of impacting our planet have fluctuated since then, according to NASA and the European Space ...
The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent, according to new calculations from NASA. The drop in odds had ...
But now, the latest update for the city-killer asteroid has delivered an audible sigh of relief as its chances of hitting Earth in 2032 have dropped to virtually zero. When Asteroid 2024 YR4 was ...
An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a potential ...