In about 4.5 billion years, the Sun will enter its red giant phase, swallowing Mercury and Venus and rendering Earth ...

Until now, the inner Solar System looked like a mostly charted neighborhood. Astronomers tracked thousands of near‑Earth ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

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

A new study suggests that unidentified "co-orbital asteroids" around Venus may have the capacity to impact our planet in the ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

These 20 "city killer" asteroids, each over 140 metres in size, could potentially be on a future collision course with Earth.

Their synchronised orbit with Venus means they could intersect Earth’s path at any time. Of particular concern is their ...