The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Scientists are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid — 2024 YR4 — whose ... you basically wipe out the whole city and some of the environs." According to the Torino Impact Hazard ...

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Experts fear the space rock has the potential to wipe out a big city. The European Space Agency says "an asteroid this size ... at Curtin University and director of the Western Australian Argon ...

"A similar-size impact event today could destroy a city ... the director of the near-Earth object-seeking Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, previously told Mashable. If the asteroid is rocky or ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 YR4 twice over the next few months. The asteroid has a roughly ...

Those odds may seem pretty good (assuming you're hoping for a miss), but consider this: The International Warning Asteroid Network ... rule out an impact, CNEOS Director Paul Chodas says.

That said, scientists warn the asteroid has the potential to do “serious damage” and wipe out a major city. "This is one ... miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Centre for Near ...

That means it is powerful enough to completely level any large city ... a "potentially hazardous asteroid". Gianluca Masi, astrophysicist and scientific director of the Virtual Telescope ...