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

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

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

The observations were briefly halted due to the full moon drowning out the asteroid's faint signal, but the researchers in Finland were the first to obtain new data following the full moon.

Most ominously, while Earth is still safe from the menacing asteroid, the odds that our celestial neighbor, the moon, could be impacted have only continued to climb. James Webb Space Telescope ...

That said, astronomers are unable to rule out a possible impact with the Moon. The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile discovered the asteroid on December 27 ...