YR4's odds jumped to a 1-in-32 chance of impact, though that number will likely fall as the asteroid continues to be monitored.

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...

Recent studies indicate that asteroid 2024 YR4 may impact the Moon, with a 0.3% chance, instead of Earth. However, its ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...

Since the Moon does not have an atmosphere like the Earth to slow down asteroids, a potential impact by the giant space rock could create a crater hundreds of metres wide, ejecting debris into space.

The asteroid colliding with the Moon could release energy in upwards of 340 Hiroshima bombs with the spectacle very likely to ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled out any chance of it hitting Earth in 2068. It's way too soon to fret over ...

A large "city-killer" asteroid previously thought to have an increasing chance of colliding with Earth may actually be on ...

A seven-year-old girl was found in cardiac arrest and later died after being stabbed at a South Korean elementary school, an ...

A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, earth, and moon align, so that the moon passes into Earth’s shadow. In a total lunar ...