A recently discovered asteroid has entered the limelight, putting scientists around the world on alert. According to a study ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on the Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout Earth’s history and still occur on other planetary bodies today. While ...

An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash into the Moon in 2032. Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon go up again ...

—City-killer' asteroid that might hit moon has 'unexpected' shape, astronomers say "We've got our fingers crossed for a moon impact," Alan Fitzsimmons, a physics and math professor at Queen's ...

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

Astronomers, including from the University of Western Ontario, estimate in a new study that such an impact may release energy equivalent to 6.5 megatons of TNT and produce a lunar crater nearly ...

Map showing location of Nadir Crater and seismic and well dataset. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01700-4 New images of an asteroid impact crater buried ...

Impact craters are themost obvious indication of asteroid impacts, but craters on Earth are quicklyobscured or destroyed by surface weathering and tectonic processes1. Earth'simpact history is ...