NASA reduces the likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth from 3.1% to 0.28%

NASA Updates Risk Assessment for Asteroid 2024 YR4’s Impact on Earth

NASA says that Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72 percent chance of missing Earth when it passes by us in 2032.

How an asteroid caused an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than Hiroshima

The Tunguska Event is the largest space-related explosion in human history (Picture: Getty The action films almost always start the same. A lone astronomer peaks through the observatory telescope and sees it – an asteroid. Panic ensues. The government fumbles. But, almost always, the Earth-dwellers find a way to avoid catastrophe. While its discovery involved more than one fumbling astronomer, the asteroid 2024 Y24 has been in the headlines for …

Asteroid YR4 impact odds plummet as NASA changes threat level of 'city-killer'

NASA has been changing the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in recent days, but the latest shift significantly downgrades the asteroid's threat level and makes a moon strike more likely.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss Earth in 2032

New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to minimal levels, but its extraordinarily close approach will offer astronomers the chance to examine it in detail

Asteroid alert should drive more space research

Scientists say the chances of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 are low, but well-funded space programmes bring many benefits beside planetary defence