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 ...

A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...

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 ...

Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...

Researchers have determined the precise date when an asteroid could potentially impact Earth, carrying with it a power ...

And now scientists have figured out where this dinosaur-killing rock likely came from. According to research headed by Mario ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team.

A blast of X-rays from a nuclear explosion should be enough to save Earth from an incoming asteroid, according to the results ...