The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

A team of astronomers has determined the shape of asteroid ... major city. While unlikely, a lunar impact would provide researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to study how the size of ...

2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...

A “city-killer” space rock headed ... to study the kind of crater a rock of this size could leave. “The physical information about an asteroid’s physical property is crucial for planning ...

An asteroid that could be the size of a 10-storey building will now miss Earth - but ... impact would have been similar to a nuclear weapon - leading many to brand it a "city killer". So what would ...

NASA has been tracking a house-sized asteroid in the vicinity of Earth that is hurtling through space at a zippy 42,300 miles per hour. Known as "2025 HM4," the asteroid's path brought it within a ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

This showed that 2024 YR4 “most likely” originated in the solar system’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The building-sized rock was likely pushed into its current near-Earth ...