According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

Don't fret, the moon is safe from a potential "city killer" asteroid collision in half-a-dozen years, astronomers now say. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid ...

There's some welcome news for astronomers as a threatening asteroid is no longer expected to impact the moon. At one point, ...

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.

A team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory were focused on using the Webb telescope because the asteroid has been extremely difficult to observe since last year. A ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...