The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 have dropped from 3.1 percent to almost zero percent.
The US space agency NASA has revealed that the chances of this asteroid hitting Earth in December 2032 have dropped to 0.0017 percent.
On the other hand, the European Space Agency has also reported a similar risk of 0.002 percent.
According to NASA, there is a 99.9983 percent chance that the asteroid will pass by Earth safely within seven years, which is equivalent to a 1 in 59,000 chance of a collision.
Although the new data shows that the asteroid has a 1.7 percent chance of hitting the moon, there is no risk to Earth from such an impact.
The agency also said that when asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered, its chance of hitting Earth in 2032 was significant.
But as observations of the asteroid continued to be presented, NASA experts were able to calculate more accurate patterns of its trajectory and have now found that the asteroid poses no significant risk of hitting our planet.
