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

No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this rock hits Earth, and those odds will change (and probably go down) as scientists gather more data on the recently spotted asteroid. A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good.

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact to Earth.