A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have ...

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 ...

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

Twenty years ago, Congress gave NASA a directive: find 90% of the near-Earth asteroids that could potentially harm our little ...

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

Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90 percent of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth.

Three asteroids are said to be heading toward Earth and are likely to strike our planet within weeks. In a new study ...

A recent study has cast a concerning spotlight on a previously underestimated celestial threat: asteroids co-orbiting Venus.

A new study from the ... damage to Earth.” “While surveys like those from the [Vera] Rubin Observatory may be able to detect some of these asteroids in the near future, we believe that only ...

“Twenty co-orbital asteroids [space rocks in the orbit of two celestial bodies] of Venus are currently known,” the authors warned in the arockcalyptic study, which was published in the journal ...