Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.
The chances of the asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 appear to have doubled, but an asteroid hunter explains to Space.com why this isn't cause for concern.
A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.
YR4, discovered on December 27, 2024, by the ATLAS survey in Chile, has recently garnered attention due to an increased ...