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 ...
According to experiments and computer simulations, the radiation of a nuclear blast could be enough to change the trajectory ...
“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 recent study suggests that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, particularly the dwarf planet Ceres, may contain ...
A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...
Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...