When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is currently tracking three asteroids scheduled to pass Earth on 25 025.

The European Space Agency is about to launch a spacecraft on an important research mission designed to bolster planetary ...

Earth's moon soon won't be the only orbiting body in the sky. 'Mini-moon' asteroid 2024 PT5 will soon be here.

The asteroid, estimated to be around 100 feet in size, roughly the length of an airplane, will fly by at a distance of ...

Exploding a nuclear bomb above a huge asteroid could vaporize its surface using X-rays, pushing the space rock away from ...

Nuclear devices generate massive amounts of X-rays. A new experiment suggests that might be enough to divert a killer ...

Our planet is like a small island in the vast cosmos. The space is a hostile place. The ever-present danger of a huge ...

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

The researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories in the US have simulated asteroid deflection with a powerful pulse of ...

There's a new moon on the horizon. The Earth will gain a second, mini-moon on Sept. 29, but it won't stick around too long.

Scientists may have just created the most efficient way to stop asteroids from obliterating the Earth. Researchers in New Mexico used Sandia National Laboratory’s Z machine, the most powerful ...