A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to astronauts. It comes after NASA intentionally used a spacecraft to bump ...

Engineers and scientists are actively preparing strategies to prevent asteroid 2024 YR4 from colliding with the moon.

Last year, astronomers warned that the asteroid could strike Earth, but that fear has been set aside. Now, it has a slight chance of hitting the Moon instead ...

A newly discovered asteroid, designated 2025 TP5, is scheduled to make a remarkably close flyby of Earth on October 15, 2025. This celestial event is particularly intriguing as the asteroid will pass ...

A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear devices at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 could be just a few years away from colliding with the moon, and such an impact could have serious consequences.

An asteroid hurtling through space could hit the moon in 2032 – and scientists are weighing how best to deal with it.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

An asteroid about the size of a small building zoomed past Earth unnoticed by astronomers last week, coming as close to the ...

Asteroid impacts are typically linked with mass extinctions and catastrophic events. However, recent studies have unearthed a ...