Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

Odds rose again after Webb's May observations to 4.3%. NASA assured the public, however, that the moon's orbit around the Earth would not be altered by a collision with an asteroid the size of YR4.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has found Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a slightly higher chance of hitting the moon in 2032.

On Feb. 24, NASA announced an official "all clear" on social media, reporting the impact probability had dropped to just 0.004% and that the asteroid is "expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032." ...

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at ...

Yet, compared to asteroid mining, the Moon presents distinct advantages: it is geographically steady, completely mapped, and near enough for remotely operated machines.

According to NASA, the Webb data refined the asteroid's projected location on December 22, 2032, by nearly 20%. This revised number has thus nudged the probability of a lunar collision from 3.8% ...

NASA classifies an asteroid as potentially hazardous based on a number of factors including its size and whether it will pass within 0.05 astronomical units of Earth - the equivalent of around ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which measures around 1,300 feet in diameter. The largest space rock, known as ...