An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday—making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting.

It was a meteoric rise. The odds that “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike our planet just increased again, hitting a “historic” threshold. NASA recently raised the probability of deep impact to 1 in 32,

YR4: NASA confirms asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 3.1% chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032, potentially causing severe local damage. If the asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere, it would explode midair with force more than 500 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.