Astronomers have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses a risk to Earth; however, there is a 4.3% chance it will strike the Moon on December 22, 2032.Although 2024 YR4 previously noted ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once a potential threat to Earth, could hit the Moon in 2032, creating a 1 km crater, a bright flash visible from Earth, and a possible meteor shower, scientists say.

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

Saving the world grand strategy-style.

An asteroid which risks colliding with the moon in just years could produce "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history", scientists say. Asteroid 2024 YR4, which at one ...

The space rock is hurtling toward the Earth at a zippy 8,478 miles per hour miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.

If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we could not only witness the event, but also meteor storms like nothing we've ever ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...