The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

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Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid nearly as big as the Statue of Liberty will smash into the Earth in 2032. The odds of this big old space rock, 2024 YR4, striking us was only 1. ...

Of the Asteroid 2024 YR4, Mr Rankin said last month ... He told New Scientist: “There is the possibility this would eject some material back out that could hit the Earth, but I highly doubt it would ...

Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/John Raoux ... (NASA via AP) Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032 Read full article: Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of ...

First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated ... able to determine whether it will hit or miss the planet, he told The ...

By Katrina Miller NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting ... which are each about the size of Earth’s Grand Canyon.