Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

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

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...

From asteroid impacts to nuclear war, learn about the most extreme ways Earth could be wiped off the map and what science says about their likelihood.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There's no real risk to the planet in seven years or afterward, according to the ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to 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 Telescope observations. While a moon impact wouldn't significantly alter ...

Astronomers have upped the odds that "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the Moon, potentially causing a cloud of shrapnel that could impact Earth-orbiting satellites and other ...