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 ...

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

The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...

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

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

A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.' ...

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

The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet (10 meters). When it whizzes by Earth on ...

Earth has got a new mini-moon for the next couple of days and it has fascinated people across social media. Albeit, it might ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...