You're More Likely to Die From an Asteroid Than Rabies, Scientists Find

If you ever lie awake at night wondering just how likely you are to die from an asteroid impact within your lifetime, a new paper has you covered.

A team led by physicist Carrie Nugent of the Olin College of Engineering in the US has calculated not just how likely it is that an asteroid will hit Earth during an average human lifespan, but how likely that impact is to cause human deaths when compared to a selection of other rare, preventable ways to die.

The bad news is that death by asteroid impact is more likely to happen to you than death by rabies. The worse news is that death from a car accident is more likely than death by asteroid impact.

The great news is that all of these likelihoods are pretty low, and you can probably live your life without too much worry (although you might