NASA and global partners are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4 (YR4) for a potential 2032 lunar impact, exploring deflection strategies like kinetic impactors (DART mission style) for small nudges years ahead or nuclear options (blast near or on surface) for disruption, though early data suggests the Moon impact risk is decreasing and an Earth collision is unlikely; their main plan involves continuous tracking and assessment, with deflection methods ready if needed, focusing on altering trajectory ye

Asteroid 2024 YR4: What’s Really Happening? 🚀 👉Asteroid 2024 YR4 is a ~60-meter near-Earth space rock discovered in late 2024 that briefly raised impact concerns. Continued tracking with telescopes and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope refined its orbit and showed it no longer poses a threat to Earth in 2032. However, updated calculations now give it a small ~4% chance of hitting the Moon on December 22, 2032, meaning there’s about a 96% chance it won’t. Scientists are studying ways to deflect