ESA Cancels Asteroid 2024 YR4 Threat Alert

Artist's concept of Asteroids approaching Earth.
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Less than two months after asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the top of the European Space Agency’s risk list of near-Earth objects, ESA now says it “no longer poses significant impact risk” and has downgraded the threat to a Level 0 from Level 3 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale . Scientists at one point...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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