Earth may be safe from an impact by the asteroid 2024 YR4, but it still has a chance of striking the moon. This lunar impact could pose a risk to space tech and astronauts.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has popped up on the news again, offering both peril and opportunities, A few months ago, NASA noted that 2024 YR4 had a 3.1 percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. Since ...

A 2024 YR4 collision with the moon would likely be visible from Earth. But just because Earth was spared doesn’t mean our moon is safe. Based on the most recent calculations, the chance that the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently out of visual range of telescopes because of its orbital position. NASA, based on the James Webb Space Telescope, has confirmed that the most likely date for it to ...

The 'city-killer' asteroid that once posed a threat to Earth could still harm our home planet – just not with a direct strike. Asteroid 2024 YR4 hit headlines earlier this year when NASA ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much. The odds that the asteroid could crash into our celestial neighbor ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of slamming into the Moon in seven years.

Asteroid 2024 YR4's location forecast is now about 20 percent more precise than it was before, according to NASA. Scientists will have to wait three years — when the asteroid loops back around ...

For weeks, near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 has dominated the news. From the moment of its discovery in late December until the end of February, it became the space rock with the highest risk of ...

James Webb Space Telescope unveils building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4's true size Asteroid 2024 YR4's 60-meter (200-foot) size was alarming when scientists first found its trajectory.

The asteroid 2024 YR4, initially feared to be a “city-killer”, is no longer considered a serious threat to Earth. However, new research suggests it still has a slim chance of colliding with ...

In mid-February 2025 astronomers announced that 2024 YR4—a recently discovered asteroid big enough to severely damage or even destroy a city—stood a 3.1 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ...