The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 rose and fell last week. NASA's impact odds are now so slim that the asteroid is no longer a hazard on the Torino asteroid scale.

New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and ...

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For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1 in 360 chance of hitting Earth at the time of writing. | Credit: Dottedhippo via Getty Images NASA has downgraded the threat level of potential city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4.

The ESA also lists the asteroid's risk level at less than 0.002% at the time of writing. While the lowered chance does not necessarily guarantee that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the Earth ...

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New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) and facilities around the world have all but ruled out an impact of the asteroid with ...

At the time of writing, the impact probability reported by ESA's Near-Earth Objects Coordination Centre is around 0.001% and the asteroid no longer tops ESA's risk list. As 2024 YR4 is moving away ...