The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 has dropped from 3.1 percent to almost zero percent.
The American space agency NASA has revealed that the chance of this asteroid hitting the Earth in December 2032 has become 0.0017 percent.
On the other hand, the European Space Agency has also stated that the probability of a similar risk is 0.002 percent.
According to NASA, there is a 99.9983 percent chance that an asteroid will pass Earth safely within seven years, which equates to a 1 in 59,000 chance of impact.
Although the new data shows that there is a 1.7 percent chance of an asteroid hitting the Moon, Earth is not at risk from such an impact.
The agency also said that when asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered, it had a significant chance of hitting Earth in 2032.
But as observations of the asteroid continued to be made, NASA experts were able to calculate more accurate patterns of its trajectory and now realize that the asteroid is in no significant danger of hitting our planet.
