Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially given a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, has now had that threat officially ruled out thanks to new data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

The race to understand more about the asteroid that − as of now − has a 1.8% chance of colliding with the Earth in December 2032 is getting a boost from a heavy hitter in celestial observation ...

Observations and data gathered since the initial sighting concluded that, as of Jan. 31, the asteroid is 30 million miles from Earth and moving farther away on its orbital path around the sun.

The asteroid's impact probability with Earth has increased since it was first discovered. Impact risk: Chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth change again : An asteroid, estimated to be about ...

In 2018, it arrived at Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Sears Tower is tall. The mission collected pieces of the asteroid and brought them back to Earth in 2023.

The latest probability of impact for asteroid 2024 YR4, as of June 3, 2025, at 4.3 per cent of striking the Moon on December 22, 2032. Along the top of the image is NASA's sequence of plots ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar system. These findings can now provide information into the potential ...