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

An unexpected near-Earth asteroid has just skimmed past our planet. This space visitor, identified as 2025 TF, approached at ...

The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at ...

A small asteroid will pass relatively close to Earth, highlighting the importance of global tracking and research. Scientists ...

Dark comets are a unique type of cosmic object. While they may look like asteroids, they are actually comets with unusual ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a ...

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

Astronomers warn that Earth may be at risk from previously undetected asteroids co-orbiting near Venus. Hidden by the Sun’s ...

The comets A6 (Lemmon) and R2 (SWAN) are visitors from the chilly fringes of our solar system, and could even be visible at ...

2024 YR4 shows a 4% chance of hitting the Moon on December 22, 2032, with no risk to Earth. James Webb Space Telescope data ...

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 ...

The comet is such an unusal visitor that Nasa has set up a tracker for people to keep an eye on what its doing. It passed ...