NASA officials this week said recent calculations show a significantly smaller risk than previously believed that Earth could be annihilated in 2032 as a result of being hit by Asteroid 2024 YR4.

Getty NASA has considerably lowered the risk of the asteroid 2024 YR4’s collision with Earth. In a news release on Monday, Feb. 24, the space agency announced that the asteroid — which ...

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. Measuring about 131 to 295 ...

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial estimates gave it a 2.8% chance of striking Earth in 2032. Now, the European Space Agency says the chance of it ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was looming large in humanity's vision ... "An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few ...

The 2024 YR4 asteroid climbed to the top of the risk list earlier this month when the chance of a collision in 2032 tripled from 1.2% to about 3% (about one in 33). It first set off warning ...

YR4 is classified as a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA), meaning its orbit brings it into proximity with Earth’s orbit. Specifically, its semi-major axis — the average distance between the asteroid ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses a threat to Earth. Initial calculations suggested a potential impact in 2032, leading to significant concern. However, recent observations ...

The ESA also lists the asteroid's risk level at less than 0.002% at the time of writing. While the lowered chance does not necessarily guarantee that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the Earth ...

Article continues below At the time of writing, asteroid 2024 YR4 has just a 0.0017 per cent chance of smashing into Earth on December 22, 2032, which is a one-in-59,000 chance, according to NASA ...

After being discovered in December, YR4 shot to the top of Nasa's asteroid risk list - and was judged to have an alarming 1-in-32 chance of smashing into us. If YR4 hits Earth, the collision would ...