A telescope has revealed footage of an asteroid big enough to wipe out a city as it flies through the night sky — and there's a tiny chance it will come back to hit us in 2032.
The NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile recorded asteroid 2024 YR4 on Dec. 27, 2024, according to the NASA Center for Near Earth Object Studies. The footage shows YR4 shooting through space after it made a close approach with Earth on Dec. 25.
