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 ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer a threat? Will it ever hit the Earth? Here’s what ESA has revealed
The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to observe the asteroid in March and May 2025 under the directors discretionary ...
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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, ...
From Danger to Dismissed: How Scientists Ruled Out This Asteroid Threat
For a brief moment, asteroid 2024 YR4 had scientists on edge, with its impact probability climbing as high as 2.8%—enough to capture global attention. But thanks to rapid observations and advanced ...
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 ...
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 ...
Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s ...
'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 ...
ESA downgrades risk of 'city killer' asteroid hitting Earth to 0.001%
The likelihood of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting Earth is now 0.001 percent, according to the European Space Agency, down from ...
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.