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

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its Ramses ...

NASA’s planetary defence programme has kept a keen eye on five asteroids classed as ‘potentially hazardous’, making their ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

Venus is hiding several asteroids that humans cannot see from Earth, irrespective of how advanced the telescope is. Of the 20 ...

New research claims that Venus could be hiding dangerous asteroids capable of destruction if they collide with Earth.

At least three city-killing asteroids that could strike Earth are hiding behind our closest neighbor in the solar system.

A huge asteroid, 2025 JR, has caught the world’s notice because it is on a course for a close approach to Earth.