When the roughly 10-kilometre wide Chicxulub asteroid struck the Yucatan peninsula around 66 million years ago, it is ...

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

A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will spend the next two months alongside our planet as a mini moon before swooping back to deep ...

Get ready for a cosmic surprise this autumn - Earth is about to get a second moon, according to scientists. A small asteroid ...

A team of US scientists demonstrated that dangerous asteroids could be diverted with powerful X-rays that vaporize a portion ...

China to launch near-Earth asteroid sample return mission in 2025 China will launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample a ...

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 ...

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

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

BJ's closest approach to Earth will be about 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) way. The space rock is ~68 feet (21 meters) ...