A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) have made a min-bowing discovery hinting at the nature of asteroid ...

getty The infamous "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 could still strike the moon in the near future, according to Live Science. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made two planned observations of ...

That said, astronomers are unable to rule out a possible impact with the Moon. The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile discovered the asteroid on December 27 ...

After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth safe from “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 ... be out of the woods, the moon could still be in the crosshairs ...

The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 miles (25 km) in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the ...

A city-killer asteroid is currently on NASA’s radar because it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. However, new reports suggest that it could hit the Moon instead. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is ...

Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand ... "Nearly four billion years ago an asteroid or comet flew over the lunar south pole, brushed by the mountain summits of ...

Most ominously, while Earth is still safe from the menacing asteroid, the odds that our celestial neighbor, the moon, could be impacted have only continued to climb. The ESA then shared a collage ...

This image provided by NASA shows a view from orbit looking obliquely across the surface of the moon, where an ancient asteroid strike carved out a pair of grand canyons on the moon’s far side.

LOSS OF SIGNAL:' NASA SUCCESSFULLY CRASHES DART SPACECRAFT INTO ... of study is much smaller than the little 7-mile moon of Mars. The binary asteroid pair is measured in feet instead of miles.

“We had a general idea that this asteroid may have come from the moon, but the smoking gun was when we found out that it was rich in silicate minerals – not the kind that are seen on asteroids ...