February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

The asteroid’s impact probability will continue to evolve—likely diminishing to zero—but 2024 YR4 will officially remain an object of concern so long as its estimated chance of striking Earth remains ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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.

The narrow difference is due to the two agencies’ use of different tools for determining the asteroid’s orbit and modeling its potential impact ... discovered after passing by Earth in ...

According to Nasa's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, Asteroid 2024 YR4 has fallen off the Torino scale after recent observations. The impact probability dropped to 0.0017% or 1-in-59,000 odds ...

An image captured by the Asteroid ... to impact our planet for the next century," with a negligible 0.004 percent impact probability. "Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not be hitting the Earth after all ...

ESA-Science Office It seems that Earth isn’t likely to be struck by an incoming asteroid after all, as scientists have revised the impact likelihood of object 2024 YR4. The asteroid which has a ...

Since being first reported in Chile on Jan. 27, 2025 after a close approach with Earth on Dec. 25, the asteroid's impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1% to 2.3%. The asteroid ...

But the chance of an impact is still quite ... potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled out any chance of it hitting Earth in 2068.Should we worry about ...