Learn about the latest update on asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 3.8 percent chance to impact the Moon.

THE odds of a “city killer” asteroid that once threatened Earth instead smashing into the moon have just doubled. YR4 was ...

Further observations by the James Webb Space Telescope successfully measured the asteroid’s thermal emission. According to ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 sparked a flurry of interest earlier this year after NASA determined there was a chance it could hit Earth. The risk of an Earth impact has since dropped to zero, but there's ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused global concern after ... Estimates suggested the collision could shatter structures as far as 80km from the impact zone. Subsequent observations of the rock reduced ...

“At this writing, a 2032 impact with the Moon has not been ruled out,” astronomers, including Andy Rivkin from Johns Hopkins University, write in a new study. Images of the asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

About 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, along with around 70% of all ...