The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

Previous estimates measured the asteroid at 131-295 feet. The asteroid has been dubbed "city-killer" due to its massive size and potential to cause major destruction. The rock is big enough to ...

HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a distance of 6.8 ...

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 ...

NASA has been tracking a house-sized asteroid in the vicinity of Earth that is hurtling through space at a zippy 42,300 miles per hour. Known as "2025 HM4," the asteroid's path brought it within a ...

This showed that 2024 YR4 “most likely” originated in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The building-sized rock was likely pushed into its current near-Earth ...

An asteroid up to 100 feet in diameter passed ... Because of its relatively small size, the object wasn’t spotted until it was already nearing its date with Earth. However, at 100 feet across ...

Scientists believe a 'house-sized' asteroid originally thought ... Initially, it was believed the 'city-killer' asteroid had a chance of crashing into Earth on December 22, 2032.

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 ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed ... to study the kind of crater a rock of this size could leave. “The physical information about an asteroid’s physical property is crucial for planning ...