The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

That score is down from 3, meaning 2024 YR4 is now considered one of many low-risk asteroids ... That information will be then fed to the United Nations-backed Space Mission Planning Advisory Group, ...

while 2024 YR4 is a 3 because it would cause local damage, Binzel said. Binzel presented his concept for the scale at a 1995 UN conference. A working group of the International Astronomical Union ...

2024 YR4 has now fallen from the riskiest asteroid ... To take advantage of this limited timeframe, an international group of astronomers have procured time on the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" of Earth impact.

Asteroid YR4's chances of impact now surpass the odds ... defense as well as to the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group." One report estimates Asteroid 2024 YR4 could have an impact radius ...

The Space Mission Planning Advisory Group will meet again in April to decide what to do about YR4. By then most scientists expect the risk to have almost entirely gone, as their calculations of its ...