Odds of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth go up again
Large telescopes around the world continue to track Asteroid 2024 YR4 before it fades out of view this spring and the odds of the newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth just went up.
Large telescopes around the world continue to track Asteroid 2024 YR4 before it fades out of view this spring and the odds of the newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth just went up.
If Asteroid 2024 YR4 does hit Earth, most people won’t even know it happened.
Astronomers are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which was originally spotted in late 2024. A NASA dashboard gave the chance of the asteroid colliding with Earth a 1.9% chance of happening around Dec. 22, 2032.
Scientists around the world are watching asteroid 2024 YR4 closely as NASA and European Space Agency officials say the asteroid has a small chance of smacking into Earth in under a decade.