Laboratory experiments show they work by vaporizing the surface of an asteroid – turning it into a gas – and therefore ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared a terrifying prediction about when an asteroid could possibly hit Earth.

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

On Tuesday, September 17, at a distance small by cosmic standards, an object that may be up to half a kilometer in diameter ...

Earth is getting a new companion in the form of a mini-moon for a short duration from 29 September until 25 November.  ...

Heads up! An asteroid the size of a skyscraper will blast past Earth at approximately 20,000 miles per hour on Tuesday Sept.

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

Researchers theorize X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to vaporize an asteroid's surface, altering its trajectory ...

NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...

The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

A stadium-sized asteroid named 2024 ON is expected to pass by Earth at high speed on September 17, 2024, as per a warning ...

Experiment shows that, in a worst-case scenario, humanity could use a nuclear explosion to save the planet from a deadly ...