Don't fret, the moon is safe from a potential "city killer" asteroid collision in half-a-dozen years, astronomers now say. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

A team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory were focused on using the Webb telescope because the asteroid has been extremely difficult to observe since last year. A ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

Scientists reveal massive asteroid hit the North Sea and triggered a 330-foot tsunami - New research shows structure is one of Earth’s rare impact craters after massive asteroid struck region millions ...

For a brief time, "Asteroid 2024 YR4" was considered to be the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

Scientists have finally solved a years-long puzzle. New research reveals that a 160-metre wide asteroid smashed into the ...