Asteroids have pummeled Earth for eons - some with planet-changing consequences - but for the first time in human history, we have the technology to spot these threats before they arrive. A network of ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...