Astronomers have discovered six asteroids that are ‘potentially dangerous to Earth’. But is there a reason to panic? Venus, ...

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

It may look like Earth’s twin, but Venus is keeping secrets. New research suggests that dozens—possibly hundreds—of asteroids ...

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.

Astronomers have just discovered a new celestial body in our solar system that could challenge major space theory. 2017 OF201 ...

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 ...

New research claims that Venus could be hiding dangerous asteroids capable of destruction if they collide with Earth.

Zero equates to a perfectly circular orbit. In our solar system, Earth has an eccentricity of 0.02, while Pluto’s highly oval-shape orbit around the sun is considered 0.25. The newly discovered ...

A 128-minute orbit, according to Kepler's third law, works out to a semi-major axis of 8,413 km (5,228 mi). Such an object with less than 0.25 eccentricity (a roughly circular orbit), therefore ...

The moon will soon have a companion in Earth's orbit for a limited time ... asteroids are "minor bodies moving in orbits with low eccentricity, low inclination and Earth-like period." ...