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

Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit, which give it a 3.8 percent chance of hitting the Moon. Now a different group has looked at its orbital past, suggesting a ...

David Rankin, an operations engineer for the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, told the New Scientist a moon smash could "eject some material back out that could hit the Earth".

An asteroid that could be the size of a 10-storey building will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon have doubled. Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of ...

Mark Burchell, a space scientist at the UK's University of Kent, told New Scientist that a Moon hit would be "a great experiment and a perfect opportunity". And on Earth, "telescopes would ...