After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed the dinosaurs - Evidence of a second ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on ...

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

The European Space Agency is preparing to launch its first planetary defense mission:: File:: 'Hera' will assess a small moon ...

Scientists in New Mexico conducted several experiments and learned that asteroids can be deflected from Earth using explosions of nuclear warheads above the space rock's surface.

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

About 66 million years ago, a "planet killer"—a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid—hit Earth. The Chicxulub impact caused a mass extinction on a planetary scale, killing off an estimated 76 percent of ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...