The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set to pass by Earth on November 13th. While scientists assure it ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Two of these asteroids — 2024 TP17 and 2024 TR6 ... orbits that bring them within 4.6 million miles from Earth’s orbit around the sun — are discovered every year, per the Catalina ...

ELON Musk’s web of satellites makes it harder to detect dangerous near-Earth asteroids, scientists have warned. The number of ...

AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

Asteroids are a constant possible threat to ... But, because it may take so long for the orbit to change, we’ll have to strike fast if ever faced with that kind of scenario.

In 2P/Encke's case, it orbits every 3.3 years, the shortest orbit of any known periodic comet. Related: 'Planet killer' asteroids are hiding in the sun's glare. Can we stop them in time?

That means astronomers will have to get to work, hunting for more asteroids that share an orbit with the sixth planet from the sun. That is, if Saturn wants to hang with its fellow gas giants and ...

Previously, scientists believed that most near-Earth asteroids came from beyond the orbit of Mars. However, the possibility that Kamo`oalewa is a fragment of the Moon. The challenge comes in ...

Although Pluto's orbit was more elongated than the other ... much as Ceres had seemed before the other asteroids were discovered. But then, starting in 1995, astronomers with better instruments ...

Trojan asteroids are a class of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrange Point in a planet’s orbit around the sun. According to NASA, a Lagrange Point is essentially a position in space where ...