This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth. Astronomers created a 3D image of the newly discovered asteroid after observing it with a telescope in Chile. (9NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.

You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space ...

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our planet, astronomers have figured out what it actually looks like: a flat, ...

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our planet, astronomers have figured out what it actually looks like ...

In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared ...

A team of astronomers has determined the shape of asteroid 2024 YR4, which could hit the moon. | Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid ...

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid that could smash into the Moon in 2032. The infamous "city-killer" asteroid, called 2024 YR4, made headlines when NASA scientists ...

Scientists believe a 'house-sized' asteroid originally thought to have a chance of hitting Earth now has double the chance of smashing into the Moon. Researchers have managed to work out the shape ...

A new study suggests that dinosaurs likely weren't in decline before an asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, challenging ...

open image in gallery Artist’s illustration of asteroid 2024 YR4 as it flies by the Earth and heads toward potential impact with the Moon (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R Proctor) It would be one of the ...

Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid with the potential to smack into the moon in the year 2032, according to new research. A team of astronomers recently studied the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is back in the spotlight. Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 percent chance of hitting the Moon. Now a different group ...