Chances an asteroid may hit Earth in 2032 dropped to near zero, astronomers say. Here's what to know about 2024 YR4.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile a couple of days after Christmas. ATLAS is an early-warning system for smaller ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path has reduced its possibility of intersecting the Earth to below the ...

Scientists have set the potential impact date for the 2024 YR4 asteroid as December 22, 2032. Where could it hit? Ultimately, it is too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth.

Since its discovery just after Christmas, asteroid 2024 YR4 has caused some alarm. Initially flagged as a potentially hazardous asteroid, with just over a 1 per cent chance of hitting Earth in ...

“When first discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a very small, but notable chance of impacting our planet in 2032,” the agency shared on Monday. “As observations of the asteroid continued to be ...

When asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered ... the “meteor crater size” rock was predicted to be near Earth just before Christmas 2032. Early estimates indicated that December 22 of that ...

Nobody's hitting the panic button yet. Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to NASA and ...

After briefly surpassing the potential threat of all other known asteroids, further observations have rapidly diminished the danger posed by 2024 YR4. Since its discovery just after Christmas, ...