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NASA Raises Odds of Asteroid Smacking Moon in 2032

USA TODAY on MSN · 2d

Could an asteroid hit the moon? Odds rise after NASA's Webb examines YR4. The projections

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much.

NASA Raises Odds of Asteroid Smacking the Moon in 2032

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of slamming into the Moon in seven years.

The Weather Network on MSN · 20h

Asteroid's odds of hitting the Moon have now more than doubled

The latest probability of impact for asteroid 2024 YR4, as of June 3, 2025, at 4.3 per cent of striking the Moon on December 22, 2032. Along the top of the image is NASA's sequence of plots generated from Jan 27 through Feb 23 showing how the asteroid's closest approach to Earh changed as observations refined its orbit. (NASA CNEOS)

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This is the asteroid that could crash into the Moon in 2032 and leave a crater visible from Earth

By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...

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This asteroid won't strike Earth. Here's why NASA is still watching.

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

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