After sending chills down their spines with its brief stint as the highest-risk space object ever recorded, a near-Earth ...

The risk to the moon is only part of the reason astronomers want to continue to keep an eye on 2024 YR4. While YR4 and its much larger cousin, Apophis, have been ruled out as threats to Earth ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

However, the team at NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory also say that they "have updated 2024 YR4's chance of impacting the moon," in 2032 ...

THE enormous asteroid that scientists initially feared could strike Earth is now on course to potentially crash into the Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once dubbed a “city killer”, has an alarmingly ...

asteroid 2024 YR4, which measures around 197 feet (60 meters) in length, no longer poses a risk to our planet. However, astronomers now estimate a 2% probability that it could strike the Moon.

The asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting the moon in December 2032, a slight rise from NASA’s February estimate of 1.7%. The asteroid 2024 YR4, initially feared to be a “city-killer ...