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 ...

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

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.

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in ...

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

Although more information is needed, the ESA’s Planetary Defense team believes the object was a meteor measuring at least a few feet in diameter. And while astronomers stressed there isn’t much to ...

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

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

A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.

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 ...

In a recent update on March 5, NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, often referred to as a “city killer,” will not ...