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The city-killer asteroid's Moon impact risk has almost more than doubled, according to new NASA reports. Here's what we know.
Learn about the latest update on asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 3.8 percent chance to impact the Moon.
YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...
NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is now more likely to make impact with the moon.
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 asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth - but new calculations suggest a notable chance of a lunar impact.
A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than ...
Don't worry – it's still not a danger to Earth for the time being. When we last checked in, odds of a collision between 2024 YR4 and Earth were at just 0.001 percent, far too low to be considered ...
YR4 is back in the spotlight. Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 percent chance of hitting the Moon. Now a different group has looked at its ...
There is a second round of observations set for May 2025, before the asteroid could disappear into the outer solar system for ...
"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we ...
there is currently a 4% chance of the asteroid impacting the moon instead. "Should the asteroid impact the moon, the Earth-moon system could be clouded with particles detached from the moon and ...