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," ...
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 ...
According to NASA, asteroid 2024 YR4 has a low probability of hitting Earth, however, it's large enough to cause localized damage in the event of a collision. Since being first reported in Chile ...
Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.
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