The asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to strike Earth on December 22, 2032, may now collide with the Moon instead.<br /><br />New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out an Earth impact but suggest the asteroid could still hit the lunar surface.<br /><br />An international team of astronomers confirmed the revised impact risk and announced that further observations will be made in May 2025 to refine the asteroid's orbit and thermal properties.<br /><br />If 2024 YR4 had struck Earth, the explosion could have been 500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, devastating an area the size of Washington, D.C.
