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 has a very small chance of Earth impact on Dec. 22, 2032.

21 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.

1 day ago · NASA will continue to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 with observatories funded by its Planetary Defense Coordination Office, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will observe the asteroid in March to further gain insights about its size for scientific purposes.

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 ...

6 days ago · NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission, set to launch no earlier than Sept. 2027, will accelerate NASA’s ability to discover unknown asteroids by hunting for them in the infrared. While dark in visible light, asteroids and comets glow in …

Jan 31, 2025 · NASA analysis of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, indicates it has a small chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. ... 2024 YR4 was discovered on December 27, 2024, by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. The object had a close approach with Earth on December 25 ...

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 25 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 ...

Feb 7, 2025 · While still an extremely low possibility, additional observations and analysis of asteroid 2024 YR4 indicate that its impact probability with Earth has increased to a 2.3% chance on Dec. 22, 2032.

Feb 13, 2025 · New calculations suggest there’s a 2% chance the space rock 2024 YR4 will smack Earth in 2032. This also means there’s a 98% chance it will safely pass our planet.

18 hours ago · YR4's probability of impacting Earth first began to fall last Wednesday when NASA announced the odds had dropped to 1.5%.. NASA then gave the "all clear" in a post Monday on social media site X ...