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.

YR4, once feared to be on a collision course with Earth, now has an extremely low chance of impact. However, scientists warn that it could strike the Moon in 2032, creating a large crater and ...

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 White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to explode ...

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 ...