A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of a pyramid will skim past Earth ... Most are located between Mars and Jupiter in the Main Belt. A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other ...

NASA recently revealed that improved observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have sharpened the asteroid's projected path.

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million years. Uranus and Neptune were next, within 10 million years. The inner ...

The researchers said 2017 OF201 was identified in observations by telescopes in Chile and Hawaii spanning seven years.

Asteroid 2025 KF is set fly very close to the Earth this Wednesday, according to NASA. Its size is comparable to 12 and a half fully grown gorillas. An asteroid the size of 12 and a half fully ...

The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 pummelling into the moon in December 2032 has been increased by new data gathered by the ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be fair—but one of the largest yet discovered and with an orbit around the Sun that ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

NASA officer Dr Kelly Fast is responsible for identifying and tracking asteroids, and figuring out if any of these rocky ...