NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its watchful eye toward asteroid 2024 YR4, which we now know poses no ...

YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

The event demonstrated the more widespread danger of larger meteors. The severity of an asteroid's crash depends on the size and the composition of the meteor, according to the USGS.

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Asteroid 2024 YR4’s composition is still unknown and can only be viewed by high-powered telescopes in the southern hemisphere. Its impact on Earth could be as powerful as a 75 megaton nuclear ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling ... be capable of measuring the size and composition of these fast-moving objects.

If an asteroid were to hit Earth, the scale of damage would depend greatly on its size and composition, as well as where exactly it entered the atmosphere. For example, if it happened somewhere ...