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.

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 ...

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 ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...

According to the European Space Agency, the Flyeye-1 telescope recently completed its “first light” test at the Italian Space ...

A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...

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