Asteroids: What Are They and Where Do They Come From?
Jul 15, 2014 · Just what are asteroids, exactly? They're rocky objects left over from the solar system's formation, found mostly in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Newly Discovered Asteroid Circles the Sun Inside Venus’s Orbit
Oct 22, 2025 · Astronomers have discovered a second asteroid in the inner solar system, circling the Sun almost entirely within the orbit of Venus.
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has Slight Chance of Earth Impact in …
Jan 28, 2025 · The discovery marks only the second time that an asteroid's impact risk has reached greater than a 1% chance.
How Venus Ended Up with a Mini-Moon Named Zoozve
Feb 9, 2024 · Thanks to some misread handwriting, a temporary mini-moon of Venus has just been bestowed with an unusual name.
Asteroid Won't Hit Earth, But Might Hit Moon - Sky & Telescope
Feb 28, 2025 · An artist's illustration of an asteroid N. Bartmann / ESA / Webb / ESO / M. Kornmesser and S. Brunier / N. Risinger “We are all rooting for the Moon!” Richard Binzel …
Ingredients of Life Discovered on Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu
Feb 5, 2025 · Samples from the asteroid's surface returned to Earth in 2023. NASA GSFC / University of Arizona In 2016, NASA launched a probe to collect samples from the asteroid …
Meet 2025 PN7, Earth’s New Quasi-moon - Sky & Telescope
Sep 2, 2025 · For now, the newly discovered asteroid bears the unassuming assigned name of 2025 PN 7. Of the seven previously known quasi-moons of Earth, only two so far have been …
Did Asteroids Once Rain Down on Earth? - Sky & Telescope
Sep 16, 2025 · A surge of asteroids might have peppered the inner solar system some 800 million years ago, in a short-lived shower that left its mark — literally — on Earth and its neighbors.
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: What We Know Now - Sky & Telescope
Jul 28, 2025 · Telescopes on Earth and above it have their eyes on the third-ever interstellar object ever seen inside our solar system, Comet 3I/ATLAS. Already, telescopes including the …
Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4 Might Aim for the Moon
Apr 8, 2025 · The asteroid that will now definitely not hit Earth has the highest odds ever for a predicted lunar impact — but a miss is still more likely.