getty The infamous "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 could still strike the moon in the near future, according to Live Science. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made two planned observations of ...

A team of astronomers has determined the shape of asteroid ... major city. While unlikely, a lunar impact would provide researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to study how the size of ...

Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid ... city. While unlikely, a lunar impact would provide researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to study how the size of an ...

NASA has raised the odds that a massive asteroid, about the size of a 10-storey building, could collide with Earth's Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in December 2024, initially posed a ...

Scientists have issued a chilling update on the 'city-destroying' asteroid due ... the height of a 15-story building. Were an asteroid of this size to hit the Earth, it would unleash a blast ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid is nearly the size of a football field. It was detected in December 2024, and NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies predicted then it had a 3% chance of hitting Earth ...

A so-called “city-killer” asteroid once feared to ... The revised estimate also updated the asteroid’s size to between 53 and 67 metres—roughly equivalent to a 15-storey building ...

Scientists have provided an update on the size of the 'near-Earth' asteroid, 2024 YR4. The 'city-destroying' rock was first discovered by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

An asteroid that could be the size of a 10-storey building will now miss Earth - but ... impact would have been similar to a nuclear weapon - leading many to brand it a "city killer". So what would ...

While astronomers eventually ruled out the asteroid as a threat to our planet, it was always the plan for the Webb telescope to rendezvous with YR4 in March to get better data on its size and ...

The ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 will come ... JWST's first observation of the building-size asteroid reveals that 2024 YR4 may be slightly larger and rockier than previous ground-based ...