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After weeks at the top of the Sentry list at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer ...

Breathe easy, Earthlings! That big scary asteroid that had some people worried? Turns out, it will just pass by with no plans to crash our planet’s party.

NASA scientists previously estimated that the odds of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth could rise to 20 percent, but the agency never told the public.

NASA now says the rock - estimated at 40-90 metres across - poses "no significant impact risk to Earth in 2032 and beyond".

At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

At one point the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

A near-Earth asteroid discovered by astronomers late last year that showed a rising potential for colliding with Earth has ...

Risk to planet from 2024 YR4, a football pitch-sized space rock, has been ‘significantly’ downgraded… but the Moon remains in ...

Initially, the odds of a collision in 2032 were as high as 3 percent, making it a top concern on global asteroid-risk lists.

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...