The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

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Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped better predict the asteroid's trajectory.

An asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, possibly making impact in 2032. But there’s no cause for alarm: There’s about a 2% chance of impact, and that number may go down. An asteroid ...

YR4 has a chance of collision with Earth in December 2032, with the potential impact being 500 times more powerful than Hiroshima.

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An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — with the space agency saying it "no longer poses a significant ...

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 narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact. But both percentages rise above the 2.7% chance ...