But another possibility is that the Moon would take the hit, according to David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey asteroid hunting group, who put the chance of it whacking our satellite at 0.3%.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances ...

Starlink satellites are at risk if a “city killer” asteroid crashes into the Moon, experts have warned. The European Space ...

If a meteoroid (our new, much larger, pebble analogue) happens to hit a surface which is particularly soft, like a moon which is mostly rubble, that meteoroid can pass through quite a bit of that ...

In fact, it’s been smacked by Geminids before—according to a 2015 NASA study, the Moon was hit by 19 Geminids in 2006 and impacted by 21 in 2010. Nevertheless, the recent footage may show such ...