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

NASA has continuously been monitoring 2024 YR4 since it was first reported on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...

Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

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

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...

YR4 was one of the highest-risk asteroids identified in the last 25 years. There’s a 4.3 per cent chance it hits the moon.

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

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