The huge rock is speeding along at 17 kilometres per second THE odds of a “city killer” asteroid that once threatened Earth instead smashing into the moon have just doubled. YR4 was feared to be on a ...

NASA said earlier this month that an asteroid that at one point had a 4% chance of hitting the moon will miss the lunar ...

Initially, much uncertainty surrounded the flight path of the space rock known as 2024 YR4, a small asteroid that has recently become an object of much scientific attention. 2024 YR4, measuring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have now completely ruled out any impact risk from asteroid 2024 YR4, both for ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

Astronomers have issued an interesting update for skygazers: a rare asteroid will soon be visible to the naked eye. Asteroid ...

Intentionally hitting an asteroid's moon allows for a lasting change in the primary asteroid's orbit around the Sun. This is one of the results from the experiment conducted by NASA's DART mission.