That score is down from 3, meaning 2024 YR4 is now considered one of many low-risk asteroids that are discovered each year, but that ultimately miss Earth. This is good news, says Gareth Collins ...

"For perhaps many of these new discoveries, we will have initial uncertainties about their miss-distance from Earth," Binzel said. "But just like YR4, with a little time and patient tracking ...

A skyscraper-sized asteroid is set to narrowly miss Earth next week, Nasa has warned. The space rock, dubbed 2024 ON, has ...

When scientists first discovered the asteroid 99942 Apophis in 2004, they also discovered it held a three percent chance of colliding with Earth in 2029 ... it will “just miss” our planet ...

Forward-looking: The asteroid that has 1-in-43 odds of hitting Earth in 2032 has an even smaller chance of colliding with something else instead: our moon. The object, around half the size of a ...

While YR4 still has a nearly 97% chance to completely miss Earth in 2032, its odds of impact, which now stand at 3.1%, represent the highest risk level of any large space rock ever. Those odds may ...

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