Don't worry. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72% chance of missing Earth in 2032. If you've been worrying about reports of a possible asteroid impact in 2032, we have very good news. NASA has dropped ...

That's because this space rock, designated asteroid 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-48 chance of impacting Earth in 2032. For obvious reasons, astronomers are desperate to learn as much as they can about ...

Not much is known about 2024 YR4 ... and marked the last known large asteroid to hit our world. Planet killer asteroids are space rocks that are 1 kilometer across or larger and could have ...

The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit ... on Wednesday showed that 2024 YR4 has a 1.5% chance of colliding with Earth ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 still has a nearly 97% chance to completely miss Earth in 2032, but its odds of impact, which now stand at 3.1%, represent the highest risk level of any large space rock ever.

NASA did note, however, that there was still a 1.7% chance that 2024 YR4 would impact the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032. When concerns over the asteroid were first raised, there was a possibility it could ...

The asteroid, which was first reported in December 2024 and is large enough to destroy an entire city, was initially calculated to have a 1% chance of hitting the Earth in the year 2032.

NASA first spotted the asteroid in late 2024. It was reported on Dec. 27, 2024, having surpassed the 1% impact probability threshold to formally notify other relevant U.S. government agencies of ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-43 chance of striking the Earth and is the size of Cinderella’s Castle at Disney World. It has the potential to wipe out a city. Discovered on Dec. 27 ...

In late December of 2024 ... over 1%. By Thursday, it had risen to roughly 2%. NASA describes that as still “extremely low.”Until scientists have a better understanding of the asteroid's ...

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 European Space Agency.NASA estimates ...