Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

The moon, however, may not be so lucky. As the odds of the asteroid striking the Earth have neared zero, the odds of the moon being struck by 2024 YR4 have risen from 0.3% to 1.2%, and scientists ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

A similar scenario unfolded in 2004 with Apophis, an asteroid initially projected to have a 2.7% chance of striking Earth in ... that 2024 YR4 would impact the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032.

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

If the asteroid collided with the Moon, Earth would be largely unaffected ... If YR4 - estimated between 130 and 300 feet wide - did strike Earth, it would pack a punch equivalent to eight ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

But there’s still a 1.7% chance that asteroid could hit the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA. Chodas expects the odds of a moon strike will also fade. The world’s telescopes will ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered Dec. 27 ... He said an object of this size striking the moon would be very rare and a phenomenon that typically only occurs once in a thousand years.

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...