In December 2023, NASA’s automated telescope in Chile spotted something unusual: a massive asteroid hurtling through space. Dubbed 2024 YR4, this space rock quickly climbed to the top of the impact risk list maintained by both US and European space agencies.
According to Juan L Cano from the European Space Agency’s Planetary Defence Office, the probability of impact has now jumped to 2.
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