NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently made a final observation of asteroid 2024 YR4 before it drifted out of range. This rare data update refined the asteroid’s projected path and revealed a ...

University of Arizona planetary scientist Amy Mainzer, an expert on near-Earth asteroids ... hitting Earth then, but depending on precisely when and where Bennu makes its close approach, our ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

"When we consider craters at or above a threshold diameter of 1 km, we estimate an upper limit of craters with asteroid ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...

A new study suggests that unidentified "co-orbital asteroids" around Venus may have the capacity to impact our planet in the ...

Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious metals from asteroids, but it might also ...

Astronomers have discovered six asteroids that are ‘potentially dangerous to Earth’. But is there a reason to panic? Venus, our celestial next-door neighbour, is hiding possibly hundreds of ...

potentially crossing Earth’s orbit. Some of these asteroids are large enough to cause catastrophic damage if they collide with our planet, with the potential to destroy entire cities.

Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we can react. “Twenty co-orbital ...