According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 3.1 percent chance of colliding with our planet on December 22, 2032. That makes it the highest-threat asteroid to have ever been detected, as Euronews reports. As of late January, the probability was sitting at just 1.3 percent, which then rose to 2.1 percent last week. Worse yet, the space agency suggests the asteroid could hit densely populated areas of our planet as well — if it were to make an impact just under eight years from now. "In the unlikely event that 2024 YR4 is on an […]