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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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