But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...

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

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...