The infamous 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4, which is large enough to destroy an entire city, still has a 2% chance of striking the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, according to scientists.

A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

Proctor Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid with the potential ... NASA determined there was a chance it could hit Earth. The risk of an Earth impact has since dropped ...

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

Were an asteroid of this size to hit the Earth, it would unleash a blast 500 ... 3.1 per cent - the highest odds ever recorded for a large asteroid. In February, the world's space agencies warned ...

Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit The Moon ... There are often large boulders that sit at the top of rubble pile asteroids. At its smaller size, 2024 YR4 ...

The infamous "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 could still strike the moon in the near future, according to Live Science. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made two planned observations of the ...

A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than previously thought, Nasa says. When first discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 ...