Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant threat to Earth in 2032, NASA's latest analysis determines
The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, according to the space agency's latest calculations. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies previously projected a 3% chance of the asteroid striking our planet before lowering the chance to 0.28% last week.
Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
The asteroid's odds of smacking Earth have gone up in recent days, but that number is not set in stone. There's a lot still ...
After weeks at the top of the Sentry list at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer ...
New data shrank the odds that this asteroid will hit Earth, but astronomers will continue to study it. Here’s what you need ...
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...
YR4's impact chance is now 0.002% and has been downgraded to Torino Scale Level 0, posing no threat to Earth, after recent ...
A near-Earth asteroid discovered by astronomers late last year that showed a rising potential for colliding with Earth has ...
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