It has been estimated by NASA that approximately 48.5 tonnes of meteoric material enter our atmosphere daily, which signifies ...

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

An atomic bomb could be used to deflect space debris that is so large that merely crashing a spaceship into it probably won’t do the trick.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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