At that time, NASA said that “no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%.” The agency is monitoring the asteroid’s orbit and said that the object’s “impact hazard ...

meaning our planet is no longer in that potential impact area. This happened with the asteroid Apophis — a 1,100-foot-wide behemoth that once had a small chance of impacts in both 2029 and 2036.

A model of the metal-rich asteroid named Psyche is displayed at the media center in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 10, 2023. Getty Images If an impact were to ...

Scientists are looking for a region of uncertainty where the asteroid might be. As that region gets smaller, Earth takes up more space, raising the odds of impact. But, Daly said, it will then ...

(NewsNation) — The odds that a potentially destructive asteroid will collide with Earth in 2032 have increased once again, NASA says, but the chance of an actual impact is still quite slim.

emphasized that understanding the asteroid’s trajectory remained crucial. A 1-in-77 chance of impact 2024 YR4 was first detected on Dec. 27, 2023, by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile.