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 ...
In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
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 ...
NASA issues a "worst case scenario" warning that the probability of a "city killing" asteroid hitting Earth might surpass the ...
A massive power outage across Chile plunged the country's capital Santiago into darkness on Tuesday (February 25) and knocked ...
Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.
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