Chance asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth down to 0.001 percent, ESA says
The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4: NASA Significantly Reduces Impact Risk
Good news for those concerned about reports of a potential asteroid impact in 2032: NASA has dramatically lowered the ...
See ESA Hera Spacecraft's Trajectory To The Didymos Asteroid System
ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...
The riskiest asteroid on record now has near-zero chance of hitting Earth
The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of colliding with Earth in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, thanks to new observations of the space rock.
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Asteroid ‘2024 YR4’ likely won’t hit Earth in 2032, but the odds will continue to change
Future observations, potentially including those from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), aim to refine our understanding ...
Will an asteroid hit Earth? Likely not. NASA gives 'all clear' as odds fall to near zero
The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...
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Asteroid with chance to hit Earth downgraded to level zero threat
YR4 was recently upgraded to a level three threat on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, but its chances of impact are now nearly ...
'City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 now unlikely to hit Earth, says ESA
YR4, once considered a potential threat to Earth, is now unlikely to hit in 2032, as new data and observations significantly ...
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ESA Cancels Asteroid 2024 YR4 Threat Alert
Less than two months after asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the top of the European Space Agency’s risk list of near-Earth objects, ...
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Congratulations, You Probably Won’t Be Killed by an Asteroid in 2032
No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid. There is now a .004 percent chance it will impact Earth. Here’s NASA’s explanation of why it’s no longer considered a threat (for at least the ...
This Asteroid Had a 3 Percent Chance of Hitting Earth and Now It’s Zero
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 ...
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Watch the asteroid that had us all worried zoom harmlessly through space (video)
Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expected trajectory of ...