I have been studying planetary defense, particularly being part of past, ongoing, and future small body missions. I was part of the NASA/DART mission. I am currently part of the NASA/Lucy mission and ...

A near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4 was first reported in December by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile. As of Thursday, Feb. 20, data shows that there is ...

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On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the probability ...

"Asteroid 2024 YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path has reduced its possibility of intersecting the Earth to ...