Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it impacts, it could form a large crater and create meteoroids, affecting ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Scientists scanning the Moon’s lunar rugged surface have made an unexpected discovery—two enormous canyons, each plunging 2.2 ...

Until very recently, were a Chicxulub-sized asteroid to find itself on a collision course with Earth ... times the distance between our planet and moon, but a close shave by cosmic standards.) ...

They’re hoping because resources for asteroid observation and study are limited, and if the asteroid does veer off on a collision course ... of our planet; the moon is 238,855 miles away ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and ...

However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet wide, exploded over Russia, injuring more than 1,600 people. An asteroid big enough to wipe ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

NASA’s data confirms Asteroid 2025 DU2, about 150 feet wide, will pass 337,000 miles away—just beyond the Moon. Asteroid 2025 DS3, around 100 feet wide, will be 4,070,000 miles away.