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 ...

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

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

Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the size of a bus. Orbit animation courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | ...

Earth has a new “mini- moon ” after an asteroid has joined our orbit. The object, known as 2024 PT5, has been chasing after ...

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

According to experiments and computer simulations, the radiation of a nuclear blast could be enough to change the trajectory ...

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

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 ...

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