“Everyone Thought It Was Headed for Us”: NASA Detects Asteroid 2024 YR4 on a Possible Collision Course With the Moon (and scientists are bracing for impact)

Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope observing a high-speed asteroid potentially colliding with the Moon.

“Everyone Thought It Was Headed for Us”: NASA Detects Asteroid 2024 YR4 on a Possible Collision Course With the Moon (and scientists are bracing for impact)