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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Astronomers are making a surprising breakthrough in the study of Venus, as new simulations suggest there may be a hidden family of asteroids quietly orbiting the Sun alongside the planet. This ...

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 ...

The threat of asteroid impacts on Earth is not fictional. To date, humans have discovered nearly 1.44 million small celestial ...