An asteroid that experts feared could hit Earth is no longer on track for the planet – but it still has a slim chance of striking the moon, new research says. The 2024 YR4 asteroid is nearly the size of a football field.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped the list of possible impacts with Earth. It was predicted

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach in 2032. The telescope confirmed Earth is safe, but there is a 3.8% chance that our moon may be in trouble.

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, eventually falling to just 0.004 percent. Crisis, such as it was, averted. But while YR4 won’t be obliterating any cities, it did provide an invaluable test for planetary defense science — one we passed.

It was it was this fairly large kind of not quite dinosaur killer, but but a large asteroid and a puff of puffs. When was that? it was. Oh, golly. When they first. Like in the last generation.

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it through the extinction event 66 million years ago may surprise you.