New observations suggest that a "city-killer" asteroid has a slightly higher chance of hitting the Moon than our planet.

New analyses have dramatically altered this outlook. The latest data suggests that the likelihood of the asteroid striking ...

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The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash ...

"Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to be observed with space-based or ground-based telescopes," NASA added in a statement ...

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.

At first, asteroid 2024 YR4 seemed like a potential threat to Earth, but that risk has since been greatly reduced. The asteroid is estimated to be between 30 and 65 metres wide. Meanwhile, the chances ...

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid that could smash into the Moon in 2032. The infamous "city-killer" asteroid, called 2024 YR4, made headlines when NASA scientists ...

But, experts at NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have updated 2024 YR4's chance of hitting the Moon - increasing it from 1.7% to 3.8%.