A little-known population of asteroids sharing Venus's orbit has intrigued scientists. Their unstable trajectories could ...

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 ...

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 ...

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

NASA reports a 250-ft building-sized asteroid, 2015 XR1, is passing Earth today at an incredible speed of 45,529 km/h.

Hahn/CTIO/NOIRLab/AURA/NSF Most of the near-Earth asteroids in such ... ZTF has spotted a handful of Atira asteroids inside the orbit of Earth. It’s also discovered a number of asteroids on ...

A new threat looms as scientists warn of dangerous asteroids near Venus, hidden from Earth's telescopes by the Sun's glare. These Venus co-orbitals, i ...

With the spectroscopy method, you can observe a few dozen asteroids in a year ... else in the solar system before they came near Earth's orbit," he said. "If you know what they're made of ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

YR4 was one of the highest-risk asteroids identified in the last 25 years. There’s a 4.3 per cent chance it hits the moon.