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, ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially launched a new phase in its planetary defense program with the activation of ...

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 ...

Flyeye-1, which is currently at the Space Geodesy Centre of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), will be transported to Monte Mufara, within the National Park Madonie, Sicily. Soon the other three ...

A new international project promises to “revolutionise” our knowledge of the solar system through discovering millions of its ...

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