Early in Earth's history, bombardment by enormous asteroids was common. The asteroid-smashing planetary defense mission ...

The European Space Agency will probe a harmless asteroid Nasa hit in 2022 as part of a "planetary defence test".

Scientists recently named four asteroids after four Catholic religious sisters who helped catalog about 500,000 stars in the Vatican portion of the Carte du Ciel “Celestial Map” star atlas of ...

Scientists in Albuquerque, New Mexico, say potentially dangerous asteroids could possibly be deflected by exploding a nuclear warhead more than a mile from its surface and showering it with X-rays ...

Top researchers may have just uncovered a new way to combat catastrophic asteroids strikes – and you may recognise one of their methods from the silver screen. Scientists have been following in ...

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — When lightning cracks on Earth, especially high-energy electrons may fall out of Earth's inner radiation belt, according to a new study -- an electron 'rain' that could threaten ...

Millions of asteroids are floating around in space. Find out what you know about these relics of our solar system. (Jungmin Ryu for The Washington Post) Warning: This ...

ASTEROIDS are constantly passing Earth - and every once in a while some make a direct hit. Fortunately, the latter are all too small to pose any serious threat and burn up in the atmosphere. Of ...

In the wake of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which showed that asteroids could be shifted by slamming a spacecraft into them, this X-ray technique could further prop up our ...

On a special episode (first released on October 2, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Hollywood has long been enamored with end-of-the-world science fiction where asteroids play the leading role.

An animation of the 35,000 known near-Earth objects. There are at least 50 asteroids larger than a kilometre and 14,000 smaller unknown asteroids still to be discovered and tracked, NASA estimates ...