A NASA asteroid tracker explains how scientists are calculating the risk to Earth from asteroid 2024 YR4. MSNBC Chief Plans ...

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With the "city-killer" Y24 asteroid headed for Earth, the world's largest space agencies are exploring ways to halt its ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster rocket successfully launched Saturday to deploy 22 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit ...

YR4 is a recently discovered near-Earth object (NEO) currently being closely monitored by NASA’s planetary defense teams.

Latest observations slash collision probability for asteroid 2024 YR4 from 2.8% to 0.16%, but no further updates are possible until 2028.

An asteroid being tracked by NASA made national headlines earlier this week when the space agency predicted the object had a ...

The findings have been crucial for NASA’s planetary defense efforts and critical data for experts assessing the asteroid’s ...