Using the federal government's Z machine, scientists produced this effect on a smaller, and achievable, scale. "In outer ...

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 ...

A small asteroid is going to be captured by Earth’s gravitational pull and temporarily become a "mini-moon" this autumn, ...

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

The results show that X-rays could play an even bigger role than the initial shock wave itself, though more data needs to be ...

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

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

Experiment shows that, in a worst-case scenario, humanity could use a nuclear explosion to save the planet from a deadly ...

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

“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 ...

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