A nuclear bomb could save Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact, according to a first-of-its-kind lab study.The new experiment,...
NASA scientists have released fascinating images of an asteroid that zipped past Earth this week — revealing it to be the shape...
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a blue whale is set to zip past Earth on Tuesday (Sept. 17), according to NASA.The skyscraper-size...
There is a slim but overlooked risk that the "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis could hit Earth as it makes a super close approach to...
Millions of tiny space rock fragments may be on a collision course with Earth and Mars after NASA deliberately crashed a probe into...
The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new study details....
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified a component of water on the mysterious metal-rich asteroid Psyche....
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope has already proven itself invaluable in tracking billions of stars in the Milky...
NASA's only space telescope dedicated to planetary defense has turned off its transmitter for the last time, ending its 15-year career...
The unusual shapes of the tiny asteroids Dimorphos and Selam have perplexed astronomers for years, but a new study finally explains...
In the moments before NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a landmark planetary defense test in 2022,...
Blurry new photos of a mountain-size, "planet killer" asteroid that recently made its closest approach to Earth in more than a century...
Late last month, a gigantic asteroid larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza hurtled between Earth and the moon at more than 21,000 mph...
A skyscraper-size asteroid discovered two weeks ago will zoom between Earth and the moon on Saturday (June 29). At its closest approach,...
Multiple outlets have misreported newly released findings from the fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise. These misleading...
A massive "planet killer" asteroid will make a very close approach to Earth later this week, safely zipping past our planet at around...
Roughly 66 million years ago, Earth was struck by a city-size asteroid. The impact released the energy equivalent to the detonation...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found evidence of two giant asteroids slamming into each other in a nearby star system. The...
