Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. Taking advantage Venus's gravity, Cassini gained enough momentum during the encounter to slingshot out past the asteroid belt.

Earlier this year, a “city killer” asteroid made headlines for its slim chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA now says that ...

Space brings threat and opportunity in equal measure, but knowledge is power, says renowned astrophysicist ahead of 10th ...

The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of ...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...

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

In 2019, the space probe reached the Kuiper belt – a doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies ... Both spacecraft would have been the first NASA vehicles to explore Venus since the 1990s. That asteroid is ...