Can numbers lie? If you read the above headline and drew a sharp inward breath, try to calm down. Earth is not about to descend into flames — the statistics are just lying to you.
Asteroid odds of hitting Earth double
Impactful: New calculations suggest that the large asteroid approaching Earth might now miss our planet completely, and instead collide with the Moon. Glossary
Asteroid - A small body in space, made of metal and rock material. Asteroids usually orbit the sun, but if knocked off course they can be drawn into Earth’s gravity and fall towards it.
Correlation - A connection between two things in which one thing changes as the other does, but it is not necessarily the case that one thing has caused the other to change.
Causation - The principle that nothing can happen without a cause.
Biased - Unfairly showing dislike or like.
Objective - Relating to external realities rather than internal states. The opposite is subjective. These are important concepts in philosophy but also notoriously hard to clearly define.