The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, is roughly 130 to 300 feet across. It was first reported on Dec. 27, 2024, by the NASA-funded ...
As for where it’ll go, David Rankin, an engineer with NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey Project, mapped out a 'risk corridor', ...
The DART mission was fab, but might not be able to stop 2024 YR4,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Referring to NASA’s 2022 DART mission that successfully altered the orbit of a smaller asteroid, ...
A scientist has warned that we don't have much time if the asteroid 2024 YR4 is confirmed to strike Earth in 2032. The ...