YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from." ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.

Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling ...

some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared it might collide with Earth. However, after detailed ...

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

At first, asteroid 2024 YR4 seemed like a potential threat to Earth, but that risk has since been greatly reduced. The asteroid is estimated to be between 30 and 65 metres wide. Meanwhile, the chances ...

2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was pushed towards Earth by a gravitational interaction with Jupiter, which ...

However, chances of a hit to the Moon are increasing. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. Since ...