Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile a couple of days after Christmas. ATLAS is an early-warning system for smaller ...

2024 YR4 has now fallen from the riskiest asteroid on NASA’s automated Sentry ... the same size as the Bighorn nuclear test dropped on Christmas Island in 1962. It also fits into the range ...

NASA astronomers say there's a small chance a distant asteroid could hit Earth three days before Christmas in 2032 ... If the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, were to hit the planet, it would collide ...

The chances of a close encounter of a most unpleasant kind with Asteroid 2024 YR4 have risen again ... chance it would hit the Earth just before Christmas 2032. When I first posted on this ...

The asteroid, discovered just after Christmas and named 2024 YR4, could strike the planet in December of 2032, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies. South polar region of the ...

Since its discovery just after Christmas, asteroid 2024 YR4 has caused some alarm. Initially flagged as a potentially hazardous asteroid, with just over a 1 per cent chance of hitting Earth in ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s observation arc — the time period ... about twice as far as the moon — on Christmas Day. It was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System two ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, now has a 1.5% chance of colliding with ... It came closest to Earth on Christmas Day, two days before it was first spotted, passing within around 500,000 miles of Earth.

When asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered ... the “meteor crater size” rock was predicted to be near Earth just before Christmas 2032. Early estimates indicated that December 22 of that ...