Ancient manuscripts hold valuable historical insights, but over time, age and poor storage conditions can damage their ...

China's Tianwen 2 asteroid sampling mission was proceeding well as of Friday morning, with the robotic probe already over 3 ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There's no real risk to the planet in seven years or afterward, according to the ...

These 20 "city killer" asteroids, each over 140 metres in size, could potentially be on a future collision course with Earth.

A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have warned in a new study. These space rocks, known as co-orbital asteroids, tag ...

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

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

"When we consider craters at or above a threshold diameter of 1 km, we estimate an upper limit of craters with asteroid ...

US President Donald Trump is not interested in talking with his former ally Elon Musk, amid a bitter feud over the ...

A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has ...

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

The European Space Agency's (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its "eye" to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye ...