NASA reported an increased likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting the Moon on 22 December 2032, with chances rising to 3.8 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in December 2024 and believed to have a 3% chance of hitting the Earth in 2032, now has a near-zero chance of striking Earth, NASA wrote in an update Wednesday.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of ...

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 ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA. The space rock, called 2024 YR4, was previously given up to a 3.1% chance of ...

But there's a slight chance it could hit the moon then. The asteroid swings our way every four years. NASA and the European Space Agency released the photos — showing the asteroid as a fuzzy dot ...

Just when you thought the northern lights couldn’t get any more stunning, along comes NASA to crank that dial to an 11. The space agency blasted three sounding rockets above central and northern ...

Languages: English and Italian. NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid expected to whiz past the Earth today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 GH," is ...

April 3 (UPI) --NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is the size of a 10-story building and is now more likely to make impact with the moon. Designated as near ...

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 ...

Space experts have issued a major update into an asteroid which was expected to smash Earth - causing an eight-megaton explosion. Luckily, new observations by NASA revealed that Space rock 2024 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of hitting our planet in 2032, but NASA has now reduced this chance to 0.004%. However, the chances of the asteroid hitting the moon have doubled, from 1.7 ...