YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near side of the moon ...

Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar origins, an international group of scientists says they have determined where this mysterious object came from on the Moon's ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Nasa’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies ... a slim chance of about 0.3 per cent of the 90-metre-wide asteroid crashing onto the Moon. Since the Moon does not have an atmosphere like the ...

A city-killer asteroid is currently on NASA’s radar because it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. However, new reports suggest that it could hit the Moon instead. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is ...

In this artistic rendering, two asteroids fly past Earth ... moon. It was first spotted two weeks ago by South African astronomers and is about 393 to 853 feet wide.(Pierre Carril / AP) An ...

A global view looking ‘down’ on Earth and the Moon, onto the plane of the Ecliptic and the possible ... [+] position of asteroid 20204 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. This graphic was prepared by the ...

He added that any material ejected from the collision would likely burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Throughout its history, the moon has been subject to countless asteroid bombardments, as can be ...

Based on the current data, there is also an approximately 1% chance that YR4 could hit Earth’s moon. #asteroid 2024 YR4 and 200 clones pass through the Earth-Moon system on Dec 22, 2032.

The moon, however, may not be in the clear. When first discovered in December, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a small but notable chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to information from NASA's ...

New calculations suggest that a large asteroid recently predicted to have an increased odds of striking Earth could miss the planet and might instead impact the Moon. Nasa’s Center for Near ...