An asteroid about the size of a 15-storey building that earlier this year threatened to collide with Earth may now be headed for another target: the moon. NASA has upgraded asteroid 2024 YR4’s ...

An asteroid discovered last year and briefly thought to be a threat to Earth has a 1-in-23 chance of hitting the Moon, according to updated NASA estimates based on JWST data. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was ...

Here’s how it works. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.

Asteroid 2025 KF is set fly very close to the Earth this Wednesday, according to NASA. Its size is comparable to 12 and a half fully grown gorillas. An asteroid the size of 12 and a half fully ...

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2 ...

This same asteroid, once regarded as the highest-impact threat to Earth ever recorded, is now shifting attention to our lunar ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University suggest Vesta is a fragment of a larger, extinct planet shattered in a ...

Canadian scientists working on asteroid missions, exploring the universe through the James Webb Space Telescope or helping to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and other agencies are studying a large asteroid that was discovered in 2024. While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven ...

A large asteroid, 2003 MH4, will pass by Earth on May 24. It is about the size of the Eiffel Tower. The asteroid will travel at 30,060 kilometers per hour. NASA considers this a close encounter.

The theoretical Nadir impactor would have been comparable in size to the asteroid Bennu, which has a 1-in-1,750 chance of colliding with Earth over the next three centuries, making it one of the ...

"A lunar crater forms when an asteroid, meteoroid, or comet, typically moving faster than the speed of sound, plunges into the Moon’s surface," NASA explains. "The energy of the object ...