If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we could not only witness the event, but also meteor storms like nothing we've ever ...

This time last year, the world was gripped by reports that an incoming, nearly 200-feet-wide asteroid had a tiny, tiny chance ...

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...

A newly tracked asteroid could strike the Moon in 2032, triggering bright flashes, lunar debris, and rare meteor storms on ...

For the last couple of years, NASA has been observing an asteroid that could be hurtling towards the moon in a matter of years. Scientists believe that Asteroid 2024 YR4 - which was discovered two ...

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...

Learn about 2024 YR4, the asteroid with a 4 percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032, and the possible timeline of effects that could follow.

A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...