Images show thousands of newly-identified asteroids. And there's more to come

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.
New York Post

3 city-killing asteroids could strike Earth within weeks — generating a million times more energy than Hiroshima atomic bomb

Good things don’t come in threes. 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 ...
USA Today

Asteroids around Venus pose possible 'invisible threat' to Earth: Should you be worried?

Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...
Yahoo

Asteroids with ‘unstable orbits’ hide around Venus—do they threaten Earth?

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...
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What are asteroids made of?

When we look up at the night sky, we tend to see asteroids as simple, wandering rocks—the leftover debris from […] ...