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 chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...
At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.
The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...
YR4, once considered a potential threat to Earth, is now unlikely to hit in 2032, as new data and observations significantly ...
An asteroid that sparked concerns about potentially hitting Earth no longer poses a significant threat of slamming into the ...
NASA now says the rock - estimated at 40-90 metres across - poses "no significant impact risk to Earth in 2032 and beyond".
Risk to planet from 2024 YR4, a football pitch-sized space rock, has been ‘significantly’ downgraded… but the Moon remains in ...
The space rock that once posed the greatest risk of impact to Earth in recorded history now has a near zero chance of ...
It is estimated that ~25 million meteoroids, micrometeoroids, and other space debris enter Earth’s atmosphere each day, and ...
After analysing asteroid 2024 YR4 and its path, NASA scientists determined the possibility that the rock will hit Earth in ...