YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

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

But astronomers now say that that science is telling them the asteroid will most likely miss Earth. But our planet is not ...

The impact probability describes how likely a hazardous asteroid is to hit Earth. For example, if the impact probability is 1%, it means that in 1 of 100 cases, it hits Earth.

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, though not an Earth threat, now poses a collision risk to the Moon. Scientists estimate a 4.3% chance of ...

Currently, the asteroid 2024 YR4 is too far away to observe with space or ground-based telescopes. NASA expects to make more ...

NASA says the 10-storey YR4 asteroid could hit the Moon in 2032, which could see global communications come to a complete ...

YR4, an asteroid that's the size of a building, was first discovered in December 2024. Astronomers initially predicted the asteroid would hit Earth on Dec. 23, 2032, and it would have enough power ...

A COLOSSAL asteroid on a collision course with the Moon could damage thousands of satellites and send shrapnel blasting ...