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Scientists have finally declared Earth safe from a newly discovered asteroid - but it might hit the Moon.
Scientists confirm that newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth, with odds of impact set at 0.001%.
At one point the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.
A near-Earth asteroid discovered by astronomers late last year that showed a rising potential for colliding with Earth has ...
The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...
YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of impacting Earth in 2032, ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
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 with ...