NASA tracking bus-sized asteroid approaching Earth tomorrow

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

Dangerous asteroid no longer expected to hit the moon in 2032

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

Is 'city killer' asteroid going to hit the moon? See NASA outlook

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

That small asteroid named YR4 is definitely not going to hit the moon

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

NASA Issues Major Update on 2032 Path of 'City Killer' Asteroid

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

NASA updates odds of 'city killer' asteroid hitting the Moon in six years' time

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 asteroid it hit

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

A big asteroid won't hit the moon. Many scientists had wished it would.

"The work continues." ...

Life forms can planet hop on asteroid debris—and survive

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...