A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...

The asteroid space scientists feared would hit Earth may now smash into the Moon instead. Space rock 2024 YR4 was originally calculated to have a 3.1% probability of impacting our planet on ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but ... and found it may make impact elsewhere: the moon. The football field ...

The hefty asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit Earth on December 22, 2032, could instead hit the moon, it is thought ... if the 2024 YR4 crashed into our planet as initially thought.

While astronomers eventually ruled out the asteroid as a threat to our planet ... to take such a hit from an asteroid of that size, NASA assures that the moon's orbit around Earth would not ...