This same asteroid, once regarded as the highest-impact threat to Earth ever recorded, is now shifting attention to our lunar ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...

University of Arizona planetary scientist Amy Mainzer, an expert on near-Earth asteroids who wasn ... the 343 largest bodies in the asteroid belt. “It’s amazing to me that other asteroids ...

YR4, once seen as a major Earth threat, now shows a slightly higher chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. While no longer a ...

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

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

A passing star has been discovered that could cause chaos in the Solar System, sending Earth flying out of orbit.

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Astronomers have also constructed a 3D model of asteroid 2024 YR4 using observations conducted by the Gemini South telescope ...