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

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 ...

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

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

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: ...

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 ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...

Researchers said the 200ft asteroid’s latest probability of impacting the Moon had increased to 4.3 per cent from the ...

Astronomers have identified a cluster of giant asteroids sharing Venus's orbit, posing a potential ... around the Sun), as they sometimes come close to Earth where they are more easily seen.