This same asteroid, once regarded as the highest-impact threat to Earth ever recorded, is now shifting attention to our lunar ...

A "city-killer" asteroid was found to have a greater chance of hitting the Moon than Earth, according to a new observation ...

The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its ... There’s more than a 99.9 percent chance that Bennu will not hit Earth in the next three centuries, and an impact from Bennu wouldn ...

Researchers said the 200ft asteroid’s latest probability of impacting the Moon had increased to 4.3 per cent from the ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

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.

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China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect ... while the "Tianwen-4" will head toward Jupiter. According to The Associated Press, the asteroids, chosen ...

In it, researchers stated that some asteroids could pose a collisional hazard to Earth. There are allegedly many asteroids that could come close to or hit Earth. One asteroid is being considered a ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...