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

While asteroid mining is already being undertaken, the first mission didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Here's what ...

2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...

The European Space Agency's SOHO spacecraft was the first to detect it. Its SWAN instrument, which observes solar activity, detected the object.