THE odds of a "city killer" asteroid that once threatened Earth instead smashing into the moon have just doubled. YR4 was feared to be on a deadly collision course with our planet, with the chance ...

The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. The space agency is preparing to send American ...

But, experts at NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have updated 2024 YR4's chance of hitting the Moon - increasing it from 1.7% to 3.8%.

Still, a small chance remained that it could strike the Moon instead. As per the report, a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters sheds light on asteroid 2024 YR4. Scientists ...

An asteroid that could be the size of a 10-storey building will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon have doubled. Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of ...

This striking satellite footage shows the moon's shadow racing across North America at more than 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h) during 2024's historic total solar eclipse, when several unique phenomena ...