NASA now says the rock - estimated at 40-90 metres across - poses "no significant impact risk to Earth in 2032 and beyond".

At one point, the odds of a strike in 2032 were as high as about 3% and topped the world’s asteroid-risk lists.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time-lapsed here to show the evolution of the region. Credit: NASA, ESA, M.

Scientists from NASA and ESA have almost completely dismissed the threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4. There were initial ...