This same asteroid, once regarded as the highest-impact threat to Earth ever recorded, is now shifting attention to our lunar ...

New observations suggest that a "city-killer" asteroid has a slightly higher chance of hitting the Moon than our planet.

Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system, was hit by an asteroid 20 times ... to realize that the location of an asteroid impact on ... More Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is almost precisely ...

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have shifted on its axis when a massive asteroid smashed into it about ... concentric cracks that form when a stone hits a car windshield, he said.

Since Jupiter’s orbit takes ... so are more likely to hit. The resonant “pumping” stretching the orbit both inward and outward from the asteroid belt has already made 2024 YR4 cross Earth ...

Remember that “city-killer” asteroid that was expected to land in Pakistan by 2032? Well, there's good news that it won't hit ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December 2032 ... This fluctuating movement pattern is due to Jupiter’s gravitational pull, which alters the orbit of these asteroids over time.

Like Earth, Ganymede was once hit by a giant asteroid - but it was much larger than the one that is commonly believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs ...