The football field-sized asteroid’s odds of striking the moon has increased ... go up or is it also going to go to zero,” says Mr Rivkin. “But a two per cent chance of hitting means a ...

The odds of an asteroid recently discovered by scientists hitting the Moon are increasing ... this would eject some material back out that could hit the Earth,” Mr. Rankin said to New Scientist in a ...

Scientists believe a 'house-sized' asteroid originally thought to have a chance of hitting Earth now has double the chance of smashing into the Moon ... trajectories. Mr Bolin said: "We are ...

Asteroid mining might sound like something ... Machines' IM-3 lunar lander before slingshotting around the moon and out into space. Mr Gialich says: 'The point of mission two is to get to the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA has raised the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4, a fast-moving object roughly the size ...

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 ...

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 ...