The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...

Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...

PT5 "mini-moon" asteroid will soon be in Earth's orbit. Here's everything you need to know about this celestial event.

A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...

An Arjuna asteroid, discovered in August, will become a "mini-moon" event for nearly two months from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25.

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

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

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

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

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.

A laboratory experiment conducted by an international team of researchers has confirmed that the X-rays emitted by a suitably ...

New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...