The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in December 2024. While the risk to Earth is negligible, 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher chance of impacting the moon.

Such an impact, if it occurred, would have the potential for ... % chance that 2024 YR4 would impact the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032. When concerns over the asteroid were first raised, there was a ...

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

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

There's an uncertainty region that spans, right now, the entire Earth-Moon system — which is ... time that impact prediction systems have rated any asteroid with an impact probability of more ...

Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth ... But there’s still a 1.7% chance that asteroid could hit the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA. Chodas expects the odds of a ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

The asteroid, measuring between 130 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in December 2024. While the risk to Earth is negligible, 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher chance of impacting the moon. Don't worry, ...