A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear bombs at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the moon in 2032.

The potential 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. In a new paper, scientists ...

A GIANT asteroid that risks crashing into the Moon could be nuked before it makes impact. Scientists are looking into the possibility of destroying the so-called “city-killer” asteroid ...

NASA's Psyche mission and US startups are accelerating efforts to mine asteroids for valuable metals, promising vast riches but also posing risks of global market disruption.

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the moon — by blowing it up with nukes.

Fleet Space Technologies, Australia’s leading space exploration company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with ExLabs ...

Astronomers are observing asteroid 2024 YR4. It may hit the Moon in 2032. A lunar impact could send debris toward Earth. This debris could damage satellites. Scientists are planning to break up the ...

Researchers, including some from NASA, say the best option to stop an asteroid with a 4% chance of smashing into the moon and ...

With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...

Fleet Space Technologies will survey an asteroid from space when the cruise ship-sized rock passes near Earth on Friday, ...

Picture this: a 'city killer' asteroid is hurtling through space, and its trajectory has it on a collision course. Thankfully ...