Researchers from Spain have discovered a kind of second moon orbiting around Earth. Known as Apollo asteroid 2025 PN7, it was ...

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 ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual ...

Astronomers have identified a small asteroid, designated 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth, intriguingly behaving like a quasi-moon.

The asteroid will pass the Earth at a distance of about 135,000 miles (about 217,000 km), considered "close" in astronomical ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered six asteroids that are ‘potentially dangerous to Earth’. But is there a reason to panic? Venus, our celestial next-door neighbour, is hiding possibly hundreds of ...

According to NASA, an asteroid the size of a 50-storey building will make a close approach to Earth this week.The rock known ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

A chunk of rock and ice about the same size as a bus is due to skim past the Earth on Monday. The asteroid, named (2024 UQ1), measures between 25.3 feet and 55.8 feet, according to NASA's Jet ...