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The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to be on a collision course with Earth, now poses no significant risk. New observational data has drastically ...

(CNN) — Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to NASA and the European Space Agency.

PARIS — The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 percent, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

MANILA, Philippines — An asteroid, whichemerged the most threatening celestial body in forecasting history, no longer poses a significant threat to Earth, according to the American agency ...

An asteroid that sparked concerns about potentially hitting Earth no longer poses a significant threat of slamming into the planet, according to NASA’s latest analysis. The asteroid, Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...