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

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

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

The asteroid that had people fearful for their lives is now very unlikely to strike the planet,... but scientists reveal it ...

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.

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.

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 ...