The object is known as 2025 SC79, and it is 700 meters (2,297 feet) across. It goes around the Sun every 128 days, and it ...

Reflect Orbital says their light-on-demand idea has generated significant interest from commercial and government customers.

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." ...

Researchers at the Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) have discovered a population of asteroids that could pose a very ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) was discovered early this year by one of the telescopes on — you guessed it — Mount Lemmon, where ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the distant past, the Solar System was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

Engineers are developing robotic missions capable of extracting precious metals and water from asteroids orbiting near Earth.

Passing at an altitude of just 265 miles (428 kilometres), the asteroid came closer to the Earth's surface than the orbit of ...