But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...
A series of radar images taken by Nasa has revealed that a large asteroid which zoomed past Earth last week was actually two ...
Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, astronomers and planetary scientists have pondered the make-up of this ...
According to experiments and computer simulations, the radiation of a nuclear blast could be enough to change the trajectory ...
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...
And now scientists have figured out where this dinosaur-killing rock likely came from. According to research headed by Mario ...
New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...
“For a one-nanometer fall, we can ignore Earth’s gravity for 20 millionths of a second as Z produces a burst of X-rays that ...
A 38-foot asteroid, similar in size to a small plane, is set to make a close flyby of Earth today. While it will pass within ...