A fast-orbiting, 700-metre asteroid discovered within Venus's orbit highlights hidden near-Sun populations and underscores ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

The object is known as 2025 SC79, and it is 700 meters (2,297 feet) across. It goes around the Sun every 128 days, and it ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

A population of asteroids silently shares Venus's orbit, creating a potential threat to our planet. These celestial bodies, ...

Venus is often known as Earth’s twin because it is the closest planet to Earth in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid, 2025 SC79, orbiting incredibly close to the Sun and at a near-record ...

According to one hypothesis, the comet is responsible for giving humans the swastika symbol, thousands of years in the past.

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...