YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

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 largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter ... to its current position, the asteroid would have had to hit the moon at a 60 to 90-degree angle.

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

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.

When concerns over the asteroid were first raised, there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern Pacific ... shooting past Mars and out toward Jupiter. The most infamous asteroid impact ...

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.

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...