Initially, the odds of a collision in 2032 were as high as 3 percent, making it a top concern on global asteroid-risk lists.

At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and ...

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 has it down to 0.0017 per cent – meaning the asteroid will safely pass Earth in 2032 and there’s no threat of impact for ...

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 ...

YR4 was initially discovered late last year and is believed to measure between 130 and 300 feet across, comparable to the ...

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 ...