However, another update shared by NASA on Wednesday showed that 2024 YR4 has a 1.5% chance of colliding with Earth in December ... analysis of the asteroid’s orbit in 2021.

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has 1.5% odds of hitting Earth. Among the more than 37,000 known large space rocks, it's the only one right now with any chance of hitting Earth anytime soon.

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 1.5% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — though at one point earlier its estimate reached as high as 3.1%.

On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... after a precise analysis of the asteroid's orbit in 2021. And scientists are expecting similar ...

The size, trajectory, and speed of the asteroid immediately made it a cause of concern. Not only is it bigger than the Chelyabinsk object and potentially headed for Earth, it is also moving fast ...

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth ... briefly hit a higher rating of 4 on the Torino Scale. A radar observation campaign in March 2021 during ...

What to know about 2024 YR4: Scientists taking 'active measures' for asteroid with slight chance of hitting earth. What is asteroid ... Launched in November 2021, DART traveled for more than ...