"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.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its "eye" to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which measures around 1,300 feet in diameter.

A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...

A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

The Tianwen-2 mission seeks to reveal how asteroids have formed and what they can tell us about the birth of the solar system ...

On June 5, 2025, a massive asteroid known as 424482 (2008 DG5) is set to pass by Earth. The asteroid, which measures ...

In 2022, both Elon Musk and NASA issued serious warnings about the potential threat of a massive asteroid on a collision ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.