At the time, the odds of a small asteroid first discovered late last year—and designated 2024 YR4—hitting us were non-negligible. There was an estimated 3.2 percent chance that the large rock ...

Media reports suggest that NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) remains committed to keeping a close watch on asteroid 2024 YR4. Even with the risk to Earth minimized scientists ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a large space rock continues to be in the spotlight since being discovered in December last year. Earlier this week, scientists increased the chances of the asteroid striking ...

NASA has dropped the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 — at first to 1 in 67, and now to 1 in 360. The radical drop in impact risk for 2024 YR4 comes just days after its risk ...

While 2024 YR4 poses no threat, it will still have a major scientific impact when it passes Earth in 2028 and again in 2032. On Dec. 17, the asteroid will come to within 5 million miles of Earth.

The world’s space agencies have reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth to below 1 per cent, which strongly suggests that a potentially devastating collision will be avoided.

NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses a threat to Earth. Initial calculations suggested a potential impact in 2032, leading to significant concern. However, recent observations ...

Nobody's hitting the panic button yet. Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to NASA and ...

The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth has been reduced to almost zero after new observations dramatically shrunk the “uncertainty window,” according to the European Space Agency.

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth decreased from 3.1% to 1.5% on Wednesday. NASA has reported a slight chance of 2024 YR4 colliding with the moon. The chances of an asteroid ...

The probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth was reduced to zero thanks to new data collected on Sunday, Feb. 23. Level 3, which falls within the yellow band of the Torino Scale, is ...