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

Astronomers have discovered six hidden asteroids orbiting alongside Venus — and three of them could one day strike Earth.

Astronomers have upped the odds that the cosmic boulder will crash into the moon, which could potentially cause a cloud of shrapnel to impact Earth-orbiting satellites and other spacecraft, according ...

New observations of the “city killer” asteroid once thought to be on a collision course with the Earth indicate it will miss ...

IAWN stated that this near-Earth asteroid will still be observable through early April 2025, but then its orbit will take it ... the impact predictions of asteroids and comets, this new one ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

The Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS), a project designed to discover asteroids and comets that orbit near the Earth, first discovered the asteroid 2003 AY2 on January 2, 2003.

His research unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the demise of the dinosaurs. In retirement, he turned his ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an “abnormal, chaotic, and strange" planetary system 60 light-years from Earth.

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.