Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

Initial sightings of Asteroid 2032 YR4 were tricky, but tracking has gotten better, helping us understand its path. New data, ...

Not only did 2024 YR4 have the highest chance of impact on December 22, 2032, starting off at just 1.3 per cent, but the odds ...

Since its discovery just after Christmas, asteroid 2024 YR4 has caused some alarm. Initially flagged as a potentially ...

Earlier this year there were briefly fears that the 60-metre-wide (200-foot-wide) asteroid called 2024 YR4, which is big enough to level a city, would strike Earth on December 22, 2032.

Remember asteroid 2024 YR4? Once feared to be on a collision course with Earth in 2032, the space rock may still prove dangerous, just not in the way thought earlier. Astronomers now believe the ...

There was a time we feared it might strike Earth. Now, the asteroid 2024 YR4 may be eyeing the Moon instead. It’s not the direct danger that alarms scientists—but what may follow.