Scientists Say We Should Blow Up This Dangerous Asteroid Before It Gets Here

In 2022, NASA intentionally rammed a spacecraft into a small asteroid at 14,000 mph, knocking it off course.

The goal was to demonstrate a proof of concept for keeping humanity safe from a space rock heading toward the Earth.

Now a group of scientists, including ones from NASA, is exploring options for a different near-Earth space rock, dubbed 2024 YR4, which the agency’s Center for Near Earth Objects believes has a mere 0.00081 percent chance of hitting us — but a much larger four percent chance of hitting the Moon — in December 2032.

Earlier this year, the asteroid made headlines after scientists identified it as having one of the highest chances of hitting the Earth on record. However, as time went on, that probability sank to a tiny fraction of a percent.

But even if it only strike