NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth. Last week, the asteroid had a 3.1% probability of hitting Earth, which set a record level for large space rocks.

The rock tour has officially been canceled. After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth safe from “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4.

No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR4 asteroid. There is now a .004 percent chance it will impact Earth. Here’s NASA’s explanation of why it’s no longer considered a threat (for at least the next century, anyway):

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our planet this morning at a distance of about 294,000 miles, according to NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

According to the JPL's "more precise models of the asteroid’s trajectory," scientists came up with an updated impact probability only 0.004 percent. "There is no significant potential for this ...

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 below the 1-in-1000 threshold.

YR4's impact chance is now 0.002% and has been downgraded to Torino Scale Level 0, posing no threat to Earth, after recent observations.

EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / orbit animation: NASA/

After analyzing asteroid 2024 YR4 and its path, NASA scientists determined the possibility that the rock will hit Earth in seven years' time is just one in 59,000

NASA has issued a new update on whether asteroid 2024 YR4 is going to collide with Earth in 2032 after fears sparked of a low-chance impact.

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2032 specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a high of 3.1 per cent

NASA has issued a major update on whether a 'city killer' asteroid will hit Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was estimated to have a one in 32 (3.1 per cent) chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032 - the highest probability recorded in more than two decades.