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NASA has ruled out any possibility of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon during its 2032 trajectory according to new orbital data which scientists calculated using James Webb Space Telescope ...

The threat of a civilization-ending asteroid hitting the Earth is well-known — as a plethora of Hollywood movies on the subject has demonstrated. But there is a less-known threa ...

The dreaded asteroid YR4 will not strike Earth, but the likelihood of it hitting the Moon has increased: what will the ...

When Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered, it created a bit of a kerfuffle when it was reported it had a couple-percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. At 60 meters (196 feet) across, this ...

The moon is Earth's only natural satellite, a rocky celestial body that orbits our planet at an average distance of about 384 ...

Most lunar craters that we know of date back millions, if not billions, of years, making evidence of a recent impact a rare ...

Look up at a full Moon on a clear night and you are staring at a face that has been punched, gouged, and battered for four ...

For decades, the Moon has been seen as a silent, unchanging neighbor — but a surprising discovery is challenging that idea in ...

The building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of striking the moon in 2032 — and a new study predicts it could also put on a spectacular show for skywatchers by creating thousands of impact ...