The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach in 2032. The telescope confirmed Earth is safe, but there is a 3.8% chance that our moon may be in trouble.

NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is now more likely to make impact with the moon.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its watchful eye toward asteroid 2024 YR4, which we now know poses no significant threat to Earth in 2032 and beyond.

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of an asteroid that was once ranked as the biggest threat to Earth. Earlier this year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the top of the planetary defense watchlist after it was predicted to have a 3 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

NASA says asteroid 2024 YR4, the size of a 10-story building, now has a chance of crashing into the moon. At the start of the year, word spread that a huge “city-destroying” asteroid was hurtling in the direction of Earth and could potentially strike our planet by 2032,

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour, according to NASA.

The possibility of asteroid 2024 YR4 has virtually no chance of hitting Earth, but higher chance of hitting the moon.