diff --git a/.changeset/use-await-yield-star.md b/.changeset/use-await-yield-star.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d80837cb586c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/use-await-yield-star.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@biomejs/biome": patch
+---
+
+Fixed [#8645](https://github.com/biomejs/biome/issues/8645).
+[useAwait](https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/use-await/) no longer reports `async` generator functions that use `yield*`, since `yield*` in an async generator delegates to an `AsyncIterable` and requires the `async` modifier.
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/suspicious/use_await.rs b/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/suspicious/use_await.rs
index 9d8db8eda461..d0fd8fe65913 100644
--- a/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/suspicious/use_await.rs
+++ b/crates/biome_js_analyze/src/lint/suspicious/use_await.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ use biome_analyze::{
 use biome_console::markup;
 use biome_diagnostics::Severity;
 use biome_js_syntax::{
-    AnyFunctionLike, JsAwaitExpression, JsForOfStatement, JsLanguage, TextRange, WalkEvent,
+    AnyFunctionLike, JsAwaitExpression, JsForOfStatement, JsLanguage, JsYieldExpression,
+    TextRange, WalkEvent,
 };
 use biome_rowan::{AstNode, AstNodeList, Language, SyntaxNode, TextSize};
 use biome_rule_options::use_await::UseAwaitOptions;
@@ -46,6 +47,11 @@ declare_lint_rule! {
     ///
     /// // Nor does it warn about empty `async` functions
     /// async function noop() { }
+    ///
+    /// // Async generators that use `yield*` with an async iterable
+    /// async function* delegateToAsyncIterable() {
+    ///   yield* otherAsyncIterable();
+    /// }
     /// ```
     pub UseAwait {
         version: "1.4.0",
@@ -87,6 +93,11 @@ impl Visitor for MissingAwaitVisitor {
                         *has_await = true;
                     } else if let Some(for_of) = JsForOfStatement::cast_ref(node) {
                         *has_await = *has_await || for_of.await_token().is_some();
+                    } else if let Some(yield_expr) = JsYieldExpression::cast_ref(node) {
+                        *has_await = *has_await
+                            || yield_expr
+                                .argument()
+                                .is_some_and(|arg| arg.star_token().is_some());
                     }
                 }
             }
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/invalid.js b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/invalid.js
index 32b50828b979..0a96f57401f6 100644
--- a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/invalid.js
+++ b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/invalid.js
@@ -88,3 +88,8 @@ class Sample {
 		return true;
 	}
 }
+
+async function* yieldWithoutStar() {
+	yield 1;
+	yield 2;
+}
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/invalid.js.snap b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/invalid.js.snap
index b051d7299ca1..7412766c9ee1 100644
--- a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/invalid.js.snap
+++ b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/invalid.js.snap
@@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ class Sample {
 	}
 }
 
+async function* yieldWithoutStar() {
+	yield 1;
+	yield 2;
+}
+
 ```
 
 # Diagnostics
@@ -589,3 +594,35 @@ invalid.js:86:2 lint/suspicious/useAwait ━━━━━━━━━━━━━
   
 
 ```
+
+```
+invalid.js:92:1 lint/suspicious/useAwait ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+  ! This async function lacks an await expression.
+  
+    90 │ }
+    91 │ 
+  > 92 │ async function* yieldWithoutStar() {
+       │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+  > 93 │ 	yield 1;
+  > 94 │ 	yield 2;
+  > 95 │ }
+       │ ^
+    96 │ 
+  
+  i Remove this async modifier, or add an await expression in the function.
+  
+    90 │ }
+    91 │ 
+  > 92 │ async function* yieldWithoutStar() {
+       │ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+  > 93 │ 	yield 1;
+  > 94 │ 	yield 2;
+  > 95 │ }
+       │ ^
+    96 │ 
+  
+  i Async functions without await expressions may not need to be declared async.
+  
+
+```
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/valid.js b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/valid.js
index 9755ce32fc56..3f772187236c 100644
--- a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/valid.js
+++ b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/valid.js
@@ -67,3 +67,12 @@ async function awaitExpressionWithForOf () {
 	return sum;
 };
 
+async function* yieldStarAsyncIterable() {
+	yield* otherAsyncGenerator();
+}
+
+async function* yieldStarWithAwait() {
+	const data = await fetch('/data');
+	yield* processData(data);
+}
+
diff --git a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/valid.js.snap b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/valid.js.snap
index 273df19ee143..abbaddcb9040 100644
--- a/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/valid.js.snap
+++ b/crates/biome_js_analyze/tests/specs/suspicious/useAwait/valid.js.snap
@@ -73,5 +73,14 @@ async function awaitExpressionWithForOf () {
 	return sum;
 };
 
+async function* yieldStarAsyncIterable() {
+	yield* otherAsyncGenerator();
+}
+
+async function* yieldStarWithAwait() {
+	const data = await fetch('/data');
+	yield* processData(data);
+}
+
 
 ```