YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in 2032.

Measuring 40-100 metres wide, 2024 YR4 will most certainly zoom past the Earth at a very close distance, but what has people ...

However, this risk has now been raised to 2.3 percent. The ongoing increase in the probability of danger is also continuously ...

"While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1% to a ...

YR4 was first reported to the Minor Planet Center – the international clearing house for small body positional measurements – ...

Here is NASA's prediction as what asteroid 2024 YR4 looks like, as the date and location of a potential 2032 collision are ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

Astronomers are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2% chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. Scientists are ...

Scientists comment on asteroid 2024 YR4 which may hit Earth in 2032. Prof Martin Ward, Emeritus Temple Chevallier Professor of Astronomy, Durham University, said: ...

Candidates under 35 with master’s degrees in astrophysics, aerospace science, or earth and space exploration technology are ...

In light of the threat of an asteroid collision in 2032, China has launched a recruitment campaign for a "planetary defense ...