The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

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astronomer Andrew Rivkin conducted a five-hour observation of the space rock and found it may make impact elsewhere: the moon. The football field-sized asteroid’s odds of striking the moon on ...

A “city-killer” asteroid previously thought to be on a collision course with the Earth could smash into the Moon instead, new ...

The Odysseus spacecraft made a rough landing on the moon last year, toppling over and rendering much of its equipment unusable, but an onboard NASA radio telescope called ROLSES-1  was able to make so ...

Don't worry – it's still not a danger to Earth for the time being. When we last checked in, odds of a collision between 2024 ...

As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the ...

NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is now more likely to make impact with the moon.

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...

"The possibility of getting a chance for an observation of a sizable moon impact is indeed an interesting scenario from a scientific point of view," Moissl said. It could offer up a range of ...