Billions of years from now, the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and Earth. But that’s not the ...

A FIELD of at least 20 asteroids has been found lurking near Venus, having previously been hidden by the Sun’s glare, experts ...

Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90 percent of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth.

Twenty years ago, Congress gave NASA a directive: find 90% of the near-Earth asteroids that could potentially harm our little ...

They orbit with Venus, but they’re headed our way. A newly modeled population of stealthy asteroids could pose a collision risk to Earth.

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse that is slightly elongated with an eccentricity of 0.017. (An eccentricity of 0 is a circle, while the dwarf planet Pluto has a ...

Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we can react.

Researchers from the University of In São Paulo, Brazil, researchers have suggested that dozens, maybe hundreds, hidden asteroids revolve around the ...

then compared this data to the Earth's oval-shaped orbit around the sun, a phenomenon called orbital eccentricity. The authors found each glaciation period in the last 900,000 years followed a ...