A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

A minimum of three “city-killer” asteroids have been spotted near Venus, and they could strike Earth in the next few weeks without warning. “City-killer” asteroids are defined as asteroids reaching 40 ...

Quite often, several objects from space, including asteroids, meteoroids, and space debris, pass near our planet, but only a few come to our notice. While most of them are small and disappear in the ...

Marseille, France and San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2020 –– The world’s first planetary defense team staffed by citizen astronomers has completed its first research mission: Detect and model a ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...