If asteroid 2024 YR4 hits the Moon, it could launch dust and small rocks into space, creating micrometeoroid debris in low Earth orbit.
Can NASA nuke an asteroid? It has plans to do so with asteroid 2024 YR4, which is predicted to crash into our Moon in 2032.
With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid ...
China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.