Turns Out Earth Is Safe from Asteroid 2024 YR4, but What About the Moon? Graphic of the possible locations of moon impact – represented by yellow points – of asteroid 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032 ...

While 2024 YR4 poses no threat, it will still have a major scientific impact when it passes Earth in 2028 and again in 2032. On Dec. 17, the asteroid will come to within 5 million miles of Earth.

The scientists say, for example, that an Earth system boundary that is both safe and just pertaining to ecosystem area — which is affected by loss of climate, water, biodiversity and nature's ...

Humans have breached almost all of the boundaries that make the Earth a safe and just environment, researchers have said.. In quantifying the limits of the planet’s life-support systems, a team ...

A new study of Earth's health says the planet is outside its “safe operating space for humanity” on six out of nine key measurements. And the team of international scientists says that two of ...

Two or more safe and just boundaries have already been crossed for 52 percent of the world’s land surface, which affects about 86 percent of the global population.