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.

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could smash into the Moon instead in a dramatic collision. The space agency feared the chance of a ...

According to David Rankin, an operations engineer at the University of Arizona’s Catalina ... If the city-killer asteroid hit the Moon, it would leave a 1.2-mile-wide (2-km) crater.

A sideways and off-target landing has brought Intuitive Machines’ lunar mission to an early end — the second such mishap for ...

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

Nasa has predicted that a Big Ben-sized asteroid could hit the Moon and has given odds for the destructive collision. The ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to capture a photo of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the surface of the ...

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

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

But what if it hurtled into the moon instead? David Rankin, an operations engineer for the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, revealed in a post on Bluesky that the asteroid also has a 0 ...