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, debris from the nuclear bomb-like impact could trigger a "spectacular" meteor ...

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

Toshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

The small meteor lit up the night sky on Thursday and may have landed as meteorites across a vast area of the west Highlands.

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.