A space rock dubbed 2024 YR4 has a roughly 2.3% chance of smashing into our planet, NASA scientists announced.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has increased the estimated risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth on 22 December 2032, ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.
YR4 has just over a 2% chance of hitting Earth, according to NASA, but experts say there's no need to panic yet.
The latest calculations show that the asteroid known as "2024 YR4" has an increased chance of striking our planet in Dec.
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