On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it impacts, it could form a large crater and create meteoroids, affecting ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

NASA now considers the risk minimal. There is still a 1% chance the asteroid could hit the Moon. Scientists continue to monitor its trajectory closely. This ongoing observation is crucial for ...

The moon, however, may not be in the clear. When first discovered in December, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a small but notable chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to information from NASA's ...

But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash into the moon instead. The potentially hazardous asteroid measures an estimated 180 feet (55 meters ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead. An asteroid that's big enough ...

The rock tour has officially been canceled. After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth ...

Now new predictions of the moon-asteroid collision have surfaced. US space agency NASA in a post on X stated, “New data gathered last night (Feb. 19-20) dropped the December 2032 impact odds of ...