We have mapped and discovered a large portion of the most dangerous asteroids in the Solar System, but there is a glaring ...

Astronomers have identified a rare and unusually fast asteroid racing through the inner solar system. Known as 2025 SC79, the ...

Hera, a European spacecraft, is halfway to the Didymos asteroid system to study the impact of NASA’s DART mission.

A hidden population of asteroids sharing Venus' orbit could threaten Earth in a few thousand years, and we might not even see them coming without better telescopes. These so-called Venus co-orbital ...

NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to astronauts. It comes after NASA intentionally used a spacecraft to bump ...

A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists. They say the asteroid, officially ...

“Our study shows that there’s a population of potentially dangerous asteroids that we can’t detect with current telescopes,” Valerio Carruba, an astronomer at the UNESP School of Engineering said.

From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

Instead, they’re much closer, in resonance with Venus. But they’re so difficult to observe that they remain invisible, even though they may pose a real risk of collision with our planet in the distant ...

NASA confirms four near-Earth asteroids will pass Earth safely, measuring from bus to house-sized, with no impact risk on 5th October.

A possible threat to life on Earth has been identified by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil: asteroids that share Venus’s orbit but which currently can’t be detected. These ...