Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Nasa says explosion would be 150 times greater than A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima with chances of it smashing into the planet ...

The chances of Earth being hit by an asteroid in 2032 have roughly doubled – though we are almost certainly fine. On 22 December, 2032, the Earth will be visited by an asteroid discovered last year ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

or take images from a spacecraft that could closely approach the asteroid, suggests IAWN. However, 2024 YR4 will be too distant for radar observations until 2032, when it could strike Earth.

Then, the asteroid had a 1.2% chance of striking Earth. Having a 97.7% chance of not being hit by an asteroid ... We don’t initially get a full picture. When an asteroid like 2024 YR4 is ...

With the 2024 YR4 asteroid ... Getty Images "It's the highest probability of an impact I can recall. And it has the potential, the possibility for being an emergency for planet Earth." ...