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YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...
The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that asteroid 2024 YR4, initially a potential threat to Earth, now ...
Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...
After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...
By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...
Experts at NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies have updated the 2024 YR4’s chance of hitting the Moon in 2032 to 4.3 ...
An asteroid scientists feared would cause havoc by striking the Earth in the year 2032 now has an increased likelihood of ...
A 4.3 per cent of impact still counts as a 95.7 per cent chance that it will miss the Moon. So, with it having no chance of hitting Earth on that date, 2024 YR4 could simply slip through lunar orbit ...
What was once dubbed a potential 'city-killer' asteroid for Earth has now had its sights redefined. New observations from ...
YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...
YR4, which was previously considered the highest recorded impact risk to Earth, has recently attracted attention again due to ...