Since the Moon doesn’t have an atmosphere to slow down asteroids, this collision would release enormous lunar debris into space ... back out that could hit the Earth, but I highly doubt it ...

Low-orbiting space junk is relatively easy to track ... “I had been hoping for something (significant) to hit the moon for a long time. Ideally, it would have hit on the near side of the ...

Since the Moon does not have an atmosphere like the Earth to slow down asteroids, a potential impact by the giant space rock could create a crater hundreds of metres wide, ejecting debris into space.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...

However, new reports suggest that it could hit the Moon instead ... recent calculations suggest that this space rock also has a 0.3 percent chance of slamming into the Moon.

But another possibility is that the Moon would take the hit, according ... be a direct hit. Any debris thrown up by the impact would either stay there or drift into space, Dr Andrews said.

Space junk is anything that ... other things because they're going to get hit by the junk that's up there," Thresher says. "If you want to get to the moon, you're going to have to pass through ...

An asteroid originally thought to have a higher chance of colliding with Earth might instead strike the Moon, according to new calculations. NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) had ...

Some researchers have even expressed concerns about the potential for space junk to hit planes ... "If you want to get to the moon, you're going to have to pass through a barrier of space junk ...