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

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 ...

Would one error transform a lunar danger into a global catastrophe? That is the query confronting researchers as they consider how to handle asteroid 2024 YR4, a 55–60 meter-sized object now estimated ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is planning to hit the “doomsday asteroid” with a nuclear bomb and destroy ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a small risk to Earth but higher chance of striking the Moon, prompting nuclear defence discussions.

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

Scientists are taking precautions against Asteroid 2024 YR4, which might hit the Moon in 2032. Instead of the usual plan to ...

NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to astronauts. It comes after NASA intentionally used a spacecraft to bump ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once perceived as a threat, is no longer on a collision course with the planet Earth. However, there is a ...

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...