If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would ...

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a below 0.5% chance of hitting the Earth, according to observations from NASA and other astronomers. Another asteroid, Aphophis, received some attention after its discovery ...

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...

This risk placed it prominently on NASA’s Sentry Impact Risk Table, a list that tracks potential asteroid threats to Earth. Over the next few months, astronomers refined their observations and ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

Bennu has practically no chance of hitting Earth then, but depending on ... and technologies needed to neutralize an asteroid’s threat. In 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft will slam into a roughly ...

Astronomers have upped the odds that the cosmic boulder will crash into the moon, which could potentially cause a cloud of ...

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit ... NASA as “potentially hazardous,” because it will continue to make close passes to ...