If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon, it would create a crater more than half a mile in diameter (1 km), becoming the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to the study. Current ...

An extraordinary celestial event could unfold in the night sky in less than a decade if an asteroid passing Earth collides ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds as its revised trajectory is now ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit Earth, now has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon by 2032, possibly visible from Earth ...

The latest data on asteroid 2024 YR4 has scientists confident that Earth is no longer in the bullseye. However the enormous ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...

A new study by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario suggests and asteroid strike in 2032 could create hundreds of ...

The Moon, unlike Earth, lacks an atmosphere to absorb or deflect impact debris. A direct hit from YR4 could create a crater ...

Initially flagged as a potential Earth threat, asteroid 2024 YR4, a 200-foot space rock, is now predicted to potentially ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according to NASA and the European Space Agency.

However, if Asteroid 2024 YR4 does hit Earth, most people won’t even know it happened. "This is not a get-worried kind of situation," asteroid and comet expert Teddy Kareta told FOX Weather.