The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking Earth in just seven years. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

Classifying the asteroid as a compact ultradense object (CUDO,) the team realized that Polyhymnia may be composed of superheavy elements previously unknown to humans. In other words, it contains ...

One such object is asteroid (162173) Ryugu, a 1 km-wide near-Earth asteroid believed to have originated in the asteroid belt. However, it has since moved to cross Earth's orbit, located 300 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a one per cent chance of hitting Earth in December 2032. ... it is estimated to be travelling at around 15 times the speed of a high-velocity bullet.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has altered its course ahead of visiting its first target in Nov. 2023 on its way to become the first probe to visit the Trojan asteroids.

At its widest, the asteroid measures 173 miles (280 km) across and 144 miles (232 km) long, according to NASA’s website. For scale, that's larger than the state of Connecticut.