Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal

For a brief period earlier this year, the world’s space agencies were warning that the asteroid 2024 YR4 had an uncomfortably high 3.1 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Thankfully, more detailed observations have now dropped those odd to near zero, but fresh analysis using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows there is still a chance it will impact our moon – something that astronomers are excited to see.

In February, when concerns were still high, Andrew Rivkin at Johns Hopkins University and his…