22 hours ago · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid.. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday.. At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

Overview. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is a near-Earth asteroid, meaning it is an asteroid in an orbit that brings it into Earth’s region of the Solar System. 2024 YR4 is estimated to be about 130 to 300 feet (40 - 90 meters) wide and had a very small chance of Earth impact on Dec. 22, 2032, when it was first discovered.

1 day ago · While Earth may have evaded destruction by way of asteroid, NASA said there was a slight chance — about 1.7 percent — that 2024 YR4 would crash into our moon, creating yet another crater on ...

1 day ago · 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 the European Space Agency.. NASA ...

2024 YR 4 is an asteroid that is classified as an Apollo-type (Earth-crossing) near-Earth object with an estimated diameter of 40 to 90 metres (130 to 300 ft), which from 27 January to 20 February 2025 had an impact rating of 3 on the Torino scale.As of 24 February 2025, it has a rating of 0 on the Torino scale, with a 1-in-59,000 (0.0017%) chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032, [7 ...

1 day ago · NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future. When first discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a very small, but notable chance of impacting our planet in 2032. As observations of the asteroid continued to be submitted to the Minor Planet Center, experts at NASA Jet ...

1 day ago · 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.

2 days ago · "The NASA JPL Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) now lists the 2024 YR4 impact probability as 0.00005 (0.005%) or 1-in-20,000 for its passage by Earth in 2032," Richard Binzel, Professor ...

6 days ago · A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected.On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the ...

2 days ago · The European Space Agency has reduced the probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 might impact Earth in 2032 to 0.001%. The object has fallen from Level 3 to Level 0 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale and no longer requires significant attention.