At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.
Scientists have ruled out any significant threat from asteroid 2024 YR4, confirming it will safely pass Earth in 2032.
Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, ...
The space rock that once posed the greatest risk of impact to Earth in recorded history now has a near zero chance of ...
An asteroid that sparked concerns about potentially hitting Earth no longer poses a significant threat of slamming into our ...
The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...
The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...
University of Hawaiʻi astronomers are helping track an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth. Using telescopes on Mauna Kea on the Big Island, including the Canada-France-HawaiʻiTelescope, the ...
YR4 was recently upgraded to a level three threat on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, but its chances of impact are now nearly ...
The odds that the space rock, 2024 YR4, will smash into our planet in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, leading astronomers to conclude that we are no longer in danger.
The latest calculations show Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses next to no threat on impacting Earth. The impact probability was as high as 3.1%, but has now dropped to 0.004%. This decrease comes after ...
The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in ...