NASA gave an asteroid a 2.7% chance of hitting Earth. Nobody knows what happened next.

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]The asteroid's name is Apophis, 340 m wide, large enough to erase a city the size of Paris.

[00:00:08]When astronomers first ran the numbers, they gave it a 1 in 37 chance of impact.

[00:00:15]The internet [music] panicked. Scientists went quiet. For 72 hours, [music] this was the most terrifying number in all of astronomy.

[00:00:25]>> [music] >> Then more data came in, the probability dropped, then dropped again, then went to zero. But here's what nobody [music] talks about. In 2029, Apophis will pass closer to Earth than our own satellites. [music] You will be able to see it with the naked eye. It's not [music] going to hit us this time.