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For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2032 — specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4.The chance of this impact rose to ...

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 ...

NASA has been changing the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in recent days, but the latest shift significantly downgrades the asteroid's threat level and makes a moon strike more likely.

Now, however, with an impact risk of just 1 in 360, or 0.28%, asteroid 2024 YR4's hazard level on the Torino scale — used to categorize how dangerous an asteroid is — stands at 1.

As of Thursday, Feb. 20, data shows that there is a 0.3% chance 2024 YR4 will impact Earth. The asteroid is estimated to be between 130 and 300 feet across.

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.

Editor’s Note (2/20/25): Hours after this story’s publication, NASA announced that new data collected overnight had reduced the Earth-impact probability for asteroid 2024 YR4 from a record ...

On Feb. 7, the asteroid’s chances of hitting our planet grew to 2.3 percent, and as of Feb. 18, there’s a 3.1 percent chance that 2024 YR4 will impact Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. This means the ...