Don't fret, the moon is safe from a potential "city killer" asteroid collision in half-a-dozen years, astronomers now say. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space ...

In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour (15,000 miles per hour). The collision was deliberate and the asteroid ...

NASA has revealed a major update on the massive “city killer” asteroid amid fears after scientists debated using nuclear weapons to stop it.

NASA has announced that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4, a space rock roughly the size of a 20-story building, no longer poses a threat of crashing into the Moon during its close approach in 2032.

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 won't impact the moon in 2032.

Nasa has confirmed a “city killer” asteroid, once thought to be on a potential collision course with the Earth, now has a zero chance of crashing into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

Space rock 2024 YR4 was originally feared to be heading for Earth, but further observations suggested it would strike the ...

It's the first time a celestial body's orbit around the sun was deliberately changed. The asteroid that NASA's Dart ...

A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.