The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Credit: ATLAS / NASA It's certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close to Earth in 2032 ... also means a 97.9 percent chance of missing our humble blue world.

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032 ... arms about something that has a 97% chance of missing us? Well, the odds have essentially doubled ...

A 90-metre-long asteroid has a chance of slamming into the moon and missing Earth in 2035, despite earlier calculations suggesting it could hit our planet, telescope observations have revealed.

Asteroid hunter David Rankin first "precovered ... but that doesn't mean the chance of it missing Earth has halved! What is more, Rankin, who has been tracking 2024 YR4 since its discovery ...

This means that, in all likelihood, 2024 YR4 will end up missing Earth by a safe margin. However, the problem is that the asteroid is already more than 27 million miles (43 million km) from Earth ...

The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has about a 2.1 per cent chance of hitting the Earth. An asteroid is a rocky object that orbits the sun. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Jan. 27 by a telescope in ...

We can hope one of the future updates is to the view that it’s definitely missing us.” The position of the asteroid on January 28, as yet there is no huge worry that it will hit Earth in 2032 ...