Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn that the moon could be in the line of fire as well.

adept in 3D animation and working under the guise of MetaBallStudios, has crafted a video depicting the horrific consequences should the asteroid make contact with Earth. Reflecting on his work ...

A terrifying new animation has revealed the projected ... chance of 2024 YR4 hitting the moon. If the asteroid does hit Earth, the impact could release a blast of energy equivalent to 15 megatons ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

A terrifying simulation video shows the scale of destruction that could occur if an asteroid hits Earth - as scientists ... who specialises in 3D animation under the name MetaBallStudios, has ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn that the moon could be in the line of fire as well.

said in a post on Bluesky that Asteroid 2024 YR4 is calculated to have an approximate 0.3 percent chance of hitting the moon instead of Earth. Updated animation of 2024 YR4 as of Feb 11 ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...