This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

Now a different group has looked at its orbital past, suggesting a likely place of origin: the middle of the main asteroid ...

The space rock was first detected in December and was initially considered to have a chance of striking Earth in 2032.

Although still very unlikely, if the asteroid impacts the Moon it would be "an unprecedented opportunity to study the relationship between the size of an asteroid and the size of the resulting ...

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid set to smash into the Moon. Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin.