NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

How much concern should a car-sized asteroid really trigger when it slips past Earth inside the moon’s orbit? NASA’s latest ...

These four rock stars are embarking on a world tour. NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our ...

Venus probably shares its orbit with numerous asteroids with unstable orbits, and these could represent one of the most unpredictable threats to Earth from space. We’ve only found a few of these ...

A 110-foot asteroid named 2026 FF6 is making a close approach to Earth today, as confirmed by NASA. Despite its proximity, the asteroid poses no current threat.

Blue Origin and NASA are teaming up on a new mission to protect Earth from asteroids, building on NASA's DART success.

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger Didymos around the sun.

A rock and a hard place ...

For a long time, the sun's glare has been hiding a secret — a trio of space rocks with one member that could one day be hazardous to the planet. Of the three asteroids recently discovered by ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

Asteroids sharing their orbits with the planet Neptune have been observed to exist in a broad spectrum of red colour, implying the existence of two populations of asteroids in the region, according to ...