New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have eliminated any chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon in December 2032, removing a scenario that had raised concerns about ...

Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

New data suggest that the asteroid will pass the moon at a distance of 13,200 miles. NASA / JPL Center for Near-Earth Object Studies Our lunar companion won’t get smacked by the infamous asteroid 2024 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dimorphos' egg-like shape and craggy, boulder-dotted surface came into clear view in the last few moments before DART's impact ...

A rock and a hard place ...

Here's one less thing to worry about—or to look forward to: NASA has ruled out any chance that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032. Last year, the uncertainty surrounding the space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The asteroid binary, Didymos and Dimorphos. But now the mission has revealed something even more profound: by slowing Dimorphos’s ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

EXPERTS believe nuclear weapons may be Earth’s only defence against giant planet-killing asteroids as new research shows specific space rocks can be stopped by the powerful weapons. Results ...