A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...

New research shows hidden Venus asteroids could unleash city-sized impacts. Learn why they’re so hard to spot and how telescopes might find them.

Because the known Venus co-orbitals have strong eccentricity, they can move farther away from Venus and closer to Earth, thus becoming easier to see in our sky at twilight, when the Sun is below the ...

Astronomers warn of hidden asteroids near Venus that evade detection, with some capable of crossing Earth’s orbit and posing ...

Learn more about the Quasi-moons and mini-moons that sometimes get caught in our orbit and how they could offer mining ...

A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, or NEO Surveyor, has ...

On Episode 180 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the headlines, from the shutdown of NASA to the risky ...

Asteroid 2025 TC will pass Earth on October 3, 2025. This house-sized space rock measures 44 feet across. It travels at over ...