"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from." ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...

Luckily YR4 is not large enough to be capable of ... Getty Images Eros became the first near-Earth asteroid to be discovered when a German astronomer spotted it in 1898 (Credit: Getty Images ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

with the asteroid now no longer deemed a risk. But, experts at NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have updated 2024 YR4's chance of hitting the ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

brought home by the concerns over YR4: to protect our planet. In 2022, Nasa's Dart (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission deliberately aimed itself at a harmless – from the Earth's point of ...