The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, according to the space agency's latest calculations. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies previously projected a 3% chance of the asteroid striking our planet before lowering the chance to 0.28% last week.

EARTH can once again start making plans for December 2032. Nasa has announced “city-killer” asteroid YR4 is unlikely to collide with our planet that month, and has a 99.9961 per cent